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Usage examples of basketry.

At a later stage these characters of basketry influence ceramic decoration in a somewhat different way.

An incised ornament of this character, possibly derived from basketry by copying the twisted fillets or their impressions in the clay, is very common on the pottery of the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, and its variants form a most interesting study.

In basketry and certain classes of garment-making, the inhabitants of the Mississippi valley were well advanced at the period of European conquest, and there is ample evidence to show that the mound-building peoples were not behind historic tribes in this matter.

These articles, being generally light and portable, and constructed of delicate parts, can as well be classed with basketry as with wattle work.

There is frequent historical mention of the use of basketry, but the descriptions of form and construction are meager.

It was used also as a decorative device in much of the new basketry and worked in beads on their moccasins, and new shirts and waists seldom failed to display a cross in narrow yellow and black ribbon in front.

For carrying water a gum-coated water bottle of basketry is in general use.

Apache is manifested chiefly in their basketry, which shows much taste in form and decoration.

Cases filled with arrowheads and stone tools, scraps of pottery and basketry stood under placards describing the prehistory of the county.

She can learn the art of basketry in the interim, or how to make license plates.

And there were trees-not just the stunted stands of Alpine willow and Glang-ma, whose long branches the nomads used to weave their intricate basketry, or the twisted bush that provided the Yeti-wood for their fires-but around Lhasa were forests of spruce and fir, pine and spreading yew, black and white birches, oaks and poplar.

AH she could see of that was the hilt: a swirl of basketry to protect the back of the hand.

However, the rare discovery of basketry and other organic material culture has been overshadowed by the fact that the earliest cultural occupations were dated by radiocarbon to approximately 16,000-17,000 years ago.

But while they might have survived so in the old days, augmenting their incomes with metalwork, horse-trading, basketry, fortune-telling and even begging, those options were no longer open to them.

Having seen them off with a suitable breakfast-cornmeal mush mixed with pigeon livers and fresh apples-those of us not in the hunting party repaired to the houses, to pass the time in basketry, sewing, and talk.