Indian Basketry Studies in a Textile Art Without Machinery volume 1
Indian Basketry Studies in a Textile Art Without Machinery volume 1
Otis Tufton Mason
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The work is similar to that in an old- fashioned bird-cage, where the upright and horizontal wires are held in place by a wrap ping of finer soft wire. The typical example of this wrapped or bird-cage twine is to be seen among the Makah Indians of the Wakashan family living about N e a h Bay, Washington, and in the soft hats of Salish and Shahaptian. (See fig. 22. ) In this type the warp and the horizontal strip behind the warp are both in soft material. The wrapping is done with a tough straw-...coloured grass. When the weaving is beaten home tight, the surface is not unlike that of a fine tiled roof, the stitches overlying each other with perfect regularity. Such a simple style of fastening warp and weft together would seem to have occurred to tribes of savages in many parts of the world. Strange to relate, however, excepting in Washington and the ocean side of Vancouver Island, the process is not known. The exception to this statement is to be found in a few sporadic cases where, perhaps, Nutka and Makah women FIG.
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