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How to make Indian and other baskets (1903)

James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 · New York : H. Malkan · leaf 69

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outhwestern portions of the United States, among thepueblos and missions, and in northern Africa. The sewing may bedone with split stems of hard wood, willow, rhus, and the like, or, asin the case of the Mission baskets in southern California, of the stemsof rushes (Juncus acutus), or stiff grass… … FIG. 90. COILED RAFFIA BASKTES. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 69 while the sewing is done with broad strips of tough bark, as in fig. 84.In the Fuegian coiled basketry, of which a figure is given, the sewingis done with rushes, but instead of being in the ordinary over-and-overstitch it…

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