BASKETS OF UNIQUE DESIGNS AND USES
Reading edition
The average weaver does not use more than five or six figures in a design.
Case No. 3: Mission of California—a quail and flying duck design. (See Plate 11b)
Case No. 3: Shoshone (Panamint), Death Valley California—Oriole design food bowl. (See Plate 11c)
Case No. 9: Choctaw of Oklahoma—Wall Pocket. (See Plate 16c)
Case No. 9: Niantic of Connecticut—clothes rinsing basket. (See Plate 19d)
Case No. 10: Chitimacha of Louisiana—an alligator intestine design. (See Plate 15c)
Case No. 11: Shoshone (Panamint), Death Valley, California—seventy figures in the design; including the American Eagle, crow in a tree, rocky mountain sheep, and lizard tracks in the sand. (See Plate 6b)
Case No. 11: Quinault of Washington—Clam gathering basket. (See Plate 14b)
Case No. 12: Cahuilla of California—food platter rattlesnake design. (See Plate 12a)
Case No. 12: Chemehueve of Arizona—a “stink bug” design. (See Plate 12c)
Case No. 12: Yavapai Apache of Arizona—a tarantula design. (See Plate 12d)
Case No. 13: Paiute of Nevada—porridge bowl. (See Plate 10b)
Case No. 13: Hoopa of California—grinding tray and stone. (See Plate 10d)