tered or kept for some time before being made into the nets of conventional pattern (fig. 63).[1]
After the net has been bound to the hoop by a spirally wound cord that completely covers the latter, it is colored with red and blue dyes in such a manner as to emphasize the outlines of the pattern.
Maguey fiber, or horsehair, may be used for the cord which extends from the headband to the frame. It is about 8 mm. in diameter. When of maguey, it is often so well made as to pass readily for machine-made cordage until we examine it closely.[2]
Storage Baskets
The use of large baskets made especially for storing grain and other supplies was widespread in America. They were and are yet of the highest utility to the Pimas, who have raised an abundance of corn and later of wheat to supply all their own needs and more. Two types prevail: A circular bin of arrow bush covered with bushes and earth (fig. 66), and a globular basket of wheat straw built up by coiling (fig. 67).
- ↑ For detail of the weaving see Mason's Origins of Primitive Culture, 251; also Report National Museum, 1894, 471, where Professor Mason makes the statement that the kiâhâ net, worked in what is "commonly called the buttonhole or half-hitch stitch, finds its most northern extension among the Piman stock. Nowhere in the Pueblo tribes is it found, according to the collections in the U.S. National Museum. But south of the Piman it occurs in Central America, in Latin South America as far south as Tierra del Fuego, where it will he found to be the only attempt at textiles." This is another link in the chain of evidence that separates the Pimas from the Hohokam and other Pueblo peoples.
- ↑ The collection contains an old woman's kiâhâ, the foresticks of which are 1.340 m. Jong and 3cm. in diameter at the butt. The shorter sticks are 70 cm. long. The hoop is 65 cm. in diameter. The apron is 58 cm. long by 28 cm. wide. The headband is 35 cm. long and 8 cm. wide. The accompanying helping stick is 1.90 m. long and 22 mm. in diameter; the notch is 6 cm. long and 35cm. wide at the opening.
