Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 160
dha basket presently to be described, have been noted by the writer in Basket-maker collections from the Southwest and in collections from Kentucky caves, both of great antiquity. Several authorities have argued that coiled basketry is not a very ancient type. AAlth this the writer does not agree,… … 62. — Yahgan baskets of gaiichim and tdodnastdha tvpes. FlG. Height of h, 6\ in. (U/2312, 2288) logical finds now known. In other words, it seems to the writer that one would expect a priori that the basketry of an isolated and backward people like the Yahgan would be of the coiled variety. The…
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