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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 57

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, moving the basket in time, but there was no throw-ing of the baskets as in the Lalakonti. Allen Seymour, in The Traveler for September, 1900, relates how hepurchased a fine basket of a Yolo Indian (Northern California). Fromthe photograph (Fig. 41) it can be seen that the stitches are fine andthe… … FIG. 41. YOLO INDIAN CEREMONIAL BASKET. red from the small spot on the male blackbirds wing, and the twointermediate stripes are of bright bronze green from the breast of asmall local bird. After he had arranged for its purchase Mr. Seymourthus relates the ceremony of transfer to him : Soon three…

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