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 264
acorns. It is not aneasy task. The pounder is a heavy piece of granite, and the mor-tar is a hole hewn out of a great granite boulder that rests under atree. The shade is grateful, for the sun is hot and the work arduous.Raising the pestle as high as her arms can reach the woman brings it down with… … FIG. 343. MONO INDIAN BASKETS.(Collection of George Wharton James.) piece of basketry, (see Fig. 342,) and that part of the meal that is notfine enough goes through the pounding process anew. Now the meal is prepared, but before it can be used for food it mustbe so treated that the horribly bitter…
Indian baskets -- North America · Basket making
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