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The Nanticoke community of Delaware (1915)

Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 · New York : The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 51

An illustration from The Nanticoke community of Delaware, 1915, leaf 51
SPECK— NANTICOKE COMMUNITY OF DELAWARE 23 to the rim. In baskets with rectangular bottoms, the pattern is of the common checkerwork type, the sides being as in the pre- ceding. In practically all respects there is nothing unusual in the baskets with the exception of the rim, where a local… … Fig. 16. — Spring snare. bent down and the other cut off. Inside and outside of this is a smoothed hoop, flattened on the inner face and rounded on the outer. Above and between these hoops is another, rounded, and the three are bound by a splint wrapping that passes continuously round the upper…

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