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How to make baskets (1911)

White, Mary, 1869-, Doubleday, Nelli Blanchan De Graff, Mrs., 1865-1918 · Doubleday, Page and co. · leaf 246

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until the acorns are cooked. Nowall the bitterness is gone, and when dry again theyare ready to be pounded into meal. The cookingbasket of the Hoopa Valley Indians, for example,is a thing of beauty, with mountain peaks andflowing streams on its shapely sides. How repul-sively ugly are the civilized… … < ^ in .<<5 •—> Q o < 1) 1/3 1/5 «> tn 4) > re ^ W u T3 u 1) I/) re u si < ^ hj ^ P-, Pi 1J K -O « 4J < — -ac X w <n «J 8 bt £ 0, * ia p a <o WHAT THE BASKET MEANS TO THE INDIAN I$I grasses, colored with natural dyes, and stems ofthe maiden hair fern, the whole…

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