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Indian basketry, and How to make Indian and other baskets (1903)

James, George Wharton, 1858-1923, James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 · Glorieta, N.M., Rio Grande Press · leaf 144

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of the warp coil. The pairs of stepped lines meeting abovewere joined in rectangles like those below, and the decoration wasclosed by a border line at the top. The vessel was then completed in BASKET FORMS AND DESIGNS. 133 the light colored material. In this ornament all forms are bounded bytwo… … FIG. 152. YOKUT COILED BASKET WITHENCIRCLING BANDS OP ORNAMENT INWHITE, RED AND BLACK UPON A YEL-LOWISH GROUND. lines. Although these figures are purely geometric, it is not imposs-ible that in their position and grouping they preserve a trace of so-meimitative conception modified to this shape by…

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