FROM CARD: "MATERIALS, PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS, AND DYED ROOT OF TSUWIC, CAREX (?)." 203,364 A. BASKET JAR OF THE CANEL 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 SPIRAL LINES IN BLACK SEDGE REACHING FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE UPPER BORDER. UPPER SURFACE COVERED WITH WHITE BEADS. DIAMETER, 5 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1892. 203,364. FROM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. COLLECTED BY DR. J. W. HUDSON.
