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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 162

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with looped andscalloped hangings between. The little fellow is wrapped all aroundlike a mummy, with nothing visible but his head, and some times eventhat is bandaged back tight so that he may sleep standing. From themanner in which the tender skull is thus bandaged back, it occasion-ally results… … FIGS. 177. 178, 179. FIGS. 180, 181. HUPA INDIAN CRADLE BASKET. PYRAMID LAKE UTE CRADLE. other tribes often set their babies in deep conical baskets, leaving themloose and liable to fall out. If such a squaw makes a baby basket itis totally devoid of ornament, and one tribe, the Miwok,…

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