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Several Basal Strands, Straight."Chain twist," "Warp and Weft ."(c) Made with One Continuous and One Noncontinuous Strand.(D) Made with One Noncontinuous Strand.The author finds the same difficulty as students of Amerindian textiles in separating, for analysis, basketry from bagging, netting, and matting.Checkerwork, diagonal plaiting, and twined work are to be seen in the plates, but far the greater number of processes are those which remind one of the netted carrying-frames of the Lower Colorado, of Mexico, and especially of Central America.The most startling similarity to Amerindian ware is that between Mr Roth's plate XIV, of dilly-bags belonging to the coastal districts of north Queensland, and the fish-baskets of the Fuegians at the Straits of Magellan.Other similarities to Amerindian work suggest themselves, but drawings would be needed to make them plain.The Home Secretary's Department, Brisbane, has our hearty thanks for the liberal spirit which it has shown to a brother ethnologist on the other side of the world.0. T. MASON.

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