. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 256 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, Fig. 55. overlaying in coiled work. son River of British Columbia, who arc iSalishan. Tlic body of the basket is in the root of Thuja pJicatu^ and the ornamentation in strips of Elyniu^ triticoldcs and Primus demissa. (See fij;". 54.) Imbrication is one of the most restricted of technical processes. Eells says that some women in ever}- tribe on Puget Sound could pro- duce the stitch, and h
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 256 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, Fig. 55. overlaying in coiled work. son River of British Columbia, who arc iSalishan. Tlic body of the basket is in the root of Thuja pJicatu^ and the ornamentation in strips of Elyniu^ triticoldcs and Primus demissa. (See fij;". 54.) Imbrication is one of the most restricted of technical processes. Eells says that some women in ever}- tribe on Puget Sound could pro- duce the stitch, and he names the Puyallups, Twanas, Snohomish, Clallam, Makah, Skagit, Cowlitz, Chehalis, Nisqualli, and Squaxon. It doubtless orioinated here. It is the native art of the Klikitat, Yak- ima, and Spokanes, all of whom are of the Shahaptian family. The Thompson and Fraser River In- dians have long- known the art. (See Plates 68, 74-79, 156-167.) Fig. 55 is a squai-e inch from the bottom of a Fraser River imbri- cated coiled basket. It illustrates several important features in the basket maker's art. In the first place, the Indians of this ai'ca did not know how to make a ])eginning of the bottom of a rectangular l)asket wnth coiled work, so a block w^as inserted or foundation strips were laid parallel and were w^hipped together after the manner of coiled Avork. This figure also shows how the splitting of stitches before mentioned in sewing may have at first been accidental, the basket maker having in mind only the i)ur- pose of placing the stitches in vertical rows. From this unintentional fur- cation of the stitches comes the pur- poseful splitting, the forked stitches being made alike and uniform. Thus, out of a careless hal)it has come one of the beautiful ornamentations in coiled basketry. A third purpose in this figure is to show% perhaps, tln^. initial step in imbricated work. In- deed, this form of overlaying is seen on many examples of it. A straw^ of squaw grass {Xeroplnjlhi
Size: 1690px × 1478px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorsmithsonianinstitutio, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840
