Excerpt from Indian Basketry, Vol. 2: Studies in a Textile Art Without MachineryFor all arts belonging to humanity have a common bond and are included, as it were, in the same kinship - 01013120.The technical processes, the decorations, and the symbolism that may exist in the single basket having been scrutinised, it is in order to examine the geographic distribution of these forms in relation to ethnology and environment. Geography has much to do with human enterprises. It does not furnish the ingenious mind nor the skilful hand, but it does supply the materials for their exercise and set bounds in which the mind and hand soon discover how to reach their best.America was, in aboriginal times, unequally occupied by native peoples. On the Atlantic slope in both continents vast areas were in possession of single linguistic groups, called families. On the Pacific slope there were also a few inuential families, but the rule was otherwise.

Wedged in among the mountains, wherever there was an inclosure abounding in food supply, there were crowded what seemed to be shrivelled rem nants of once larger peoples, or fragments of disrupted families.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.