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 93
igger term for any dark red bark. Its chief requisites other thancolor are strength and thinness. The red bud, sumach, and rhusall produce good mil-lay; but the best and rarest specimen is thethin skin of a small deciduous shrub growing high up the mountainside. To learn its habitat, botanical… … FIG. SO. FINE YOKUT DANCE AND OTHER BASKETS. twigs are straight, leafless, and never larger than a quarter of an inchin diameter. Steeped for an hour in hot water, the skin loosens so that a simpleincision down its length with the thumb nail is ample to completewhat the confined steam underneath…
Indian baskets -- North America · Basket making
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