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est class of Indians in America, but in some lines of artistic work they excelled all other tribes. For example, their bas

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ore artistic design and finer finish for the sacred purpose of being burned or buried with their bodies, or that of some relative or dear friend, after death. The baskets devoted to this special purpose are the

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aking in the Yosemite see "Legend o

ets, and the industry of making them is fast on the decline. Some of the old women, however

an origin that Indians of the present day do not know what many of them are intended to represent. They have simply been c

e use of more modern styles of orn

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llection of Yosemite a

d other work, and any labor of this kind pays them better than making baskets for sale. Forty years ago a finely made basket could have been bought for less than ten dollars. At present, if the time spent in getting and preparing the

stern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near the dry, desert country, the Indians make some of their baskets in the form of jugs of various sizes. These are sme

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cture of their bows and arrows, in the making of fish lines and coarser twine out of the soft, flexible bark of the milkwe

or concave side when the bow is strung for use. The flat, outer side was covered with sinew, usually that from the leg of a deer, steeped in hot water until it became soft and glutinous, and then la

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one to the left is for cooking, and

ssary in cold weather to warm it, thus making it more elastic and easily bent. The

Lewisii) and a small shrub or tree which the Indians called Le-ham′-i-tee, or arrow-wood, and

are and delicate skill to work this brittle material into the fine sharp points, and the making of them seemed to be a special business or trade with some of the old men. Arrows furnish

feathers taken from a hawk's wing, and fastened on lengthwise. These strips of feather

and his bundle of assorted arrows in a quiver made of the skin of

the Yosemite Indians fifty years ago, are now never se

of deer horns mounted on wooden handles, which they used in delicately chipping the brittle obsidia