FROM CARD: "MATERIALS, PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS, AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?)." 203,363 A. BASKET JAR OF THE CNAL INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS), AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, A SEDGE, IN A STYLE OF COILED SEWING CALLED TSAI, IN WHICH A SINGLE ROD CONSTITUTES THE WARP. THE SEWING PASSES OVER THIS ROD AND UNDER THE PRECEDING ONE, LOCKING IN THE STITCH IMMEDIATELY UNDERNEATH. ORNAMENTATION, THREE SERIES OF TRIANGULAR FIGURES IN BLACK SEDGE ROOT, SUPERIMPOSED ONE UPON THE OTHER. IN THE UPPER SERIES OF TRIANGLES WHITE BEADS ARE SEWN. DIAMETER, 6 1/2 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1889. 203,363. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON.
