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 85
rcce(ling round and over the fundamental roil. Ware quite as beautiful as that of the far east may be seen in thespruce country of North America, where the fine roots furnish a toughfiber when split. Now, suppose that the woman in sewing her coil introduced a thinsplint or some tough grass between… … FIG FINE CALIFORNIA BASKETS. work water-tight. And that is the case with the Indians of BritishColumbia and Washington in making the baskets in which they boiltheir food by means of hot stones. Going farther s()uth, the fundamental rod liecomes a bunch ofcoarse grass or the split stems of palm or…
Indian baskets -- North America · Basket making
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