Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 146
sses of manufacture. There was, for example, inCalifornia a wealth of osiers, reeds, and roots well suited for mak-ing baskets; these at last were perfected as water-tight receptaclesneither brittle like a shell nor liable to a gourds swift decay. Be-ginning probably in mere wattling, in the rude… … Pomo basket. National Museum, Washington. ington, the Hudson collection of Indian baskets from Californiaincludes the finest specimen in the world, a Porno basket. Itssixty stitches to the running inch were possible only through 110 FORM—BASKETRY using the carex root, easily divided into threads at…
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