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McConncll, Dbtutt Munim. GEOLOGICAL t URVEY JMEMOIR 75 I No. 10, Anthkopological Sebibs Decorative Art of Indian Tribes of Connecticut IT Frank G. Speck OTTAWA GOVEKNMENT PUNTING BUBBAU 191S No. 1499 r ILLUSTRATIONS. PACB Figure 1 . Mohegan bulcet gauge 11 2 . Mohegan hand iplint planer 11 3 . Mohegan crooked knivet with wood and antler handles 13 4. Bone punch IS 5 . Typical batketry deiign of the Mohegan* IS 6. Moiiegan and Niantic painted designs 17 c,f, from specimen 6, PI. IV, Niantic. a,d, from specimen a, PI. Ill, Mohegan. b,e, from specimen h, PI. I, Mohegan. 7 . Mohegan and Niantic painted designs 19 a, from specimen a, PI. Ill, Mohegan. b, from specimen b, PI. IV, Niantic. c,e, from specimen b, PI. I, Mohegan. d, from specimen a, PI. I, Mohegan. f, from specimen c, PI. II, Mohegan. 8. Mohegan and Niantic painted designs 21 a,c,d,e,f , from specimen b, PI. IV, Niantic. b, from specimen a, PI. Ill, Mohegan. 9. Mohegar tainted designs 23 a,c, from specimen a, PI. Ill, Mohegan. b, Mohegan. 10. Mohegan, Niantic, and Scatticook painted designs 25 a,b, from specimen a, PI. Ill, Mohegan. c,e,f,g,h,i,k, from specimen b, PI. IV, Niantic. d. from spec' nen a, PI. II, Mohegan. j, from specimen c, PI. II, Mohegan. I, from Curtis, Scatticook. 11. M ^ Niantic painted designs 27 : idmen b, PI. I, Mohegan. •; , irom specimen b, PI. IV, Niantic. 12. 1 ' Ml ■-. .ticook, and Niantic painted designs. 29 .>n specimen (Mohegan). b, itom specimen a, PI. Ill, Mohegan. d,f, from Curtis (Scatticook). e, from specimen b, PI. IV, Niantic. 13. Linear border designs from Mohegan painted baskets 29 14. Body designs from Mohegan painted baskets: 31 a, on the top of the basket; 6 on the sides. 15. The curlicue or roll, in Scatticook baskets 33 16. The curlicue or roll, in Scatticook baskets 3S Plate 17. Bottom d Seattlcook bMket, ihowiiif trimiwn «i ««1W ^^ •n)""" 39 II. (») Scatticook gauge ^ (b) Scattkook gauge ^j 19. Scattfcook gauge* ^ 20. Seattkook ipUnt leaner ^ 21. Moheganbeadwork on birch bark ^ 22. Carved bone hand ^ 23. Decorated Mohegan wooden object I. Mohegan betkett(o and 6 painted).. *• II. Mohegan batkett(o,fr, and* painted) |J III. Mohegan baekets a— Painted. b— Shows bottom conitruction. IV. Niantic and Mohegan be»keti a— Mohegan washing basket. .o.„. w_ b-Niantic storage basket made about 1840 by Mr* Mathews at Black Point (near Lyme, Conn.) ^^ V. Mohegan carrying bask, ts ■ '."niiiiJ S« VI. Mohegan baskets, fancy work basketyndwaUpccto^ 59 VII. Tunxi. baskets. Made by Pually Mo.«jck. a Twud. woman from Farmington. Conn., who dted about 1890 at Mohegan. Lower left hand basket slighUy ^^ VIII. Scatticook baikits. -nade by Rachel Mawee, AWgall Ma*«e.andViney Carter, whodiedat Kent. Conn. ^ about 1895 .■.•"■,■; (A IX. Oneida stamped basket (Heye collection) ^ X. Moheganand Niantic moccasin* a— Mohegan moccasins. b— Niantic moccasins from the old reservation at Black Point, near Lyme. Conn. XI. Mohegan and Niantic beaded bags (3 from the Heye ^^ collection) • y| XII. Mohegan corn mortars and stone pestle ^^ XIII. Mohegan ladles and spoons mJI 1 Decorative Art of Indian Tribes of Connecticut. 1 A fortunate phase of the rewarch work among the Indians of New England has recently led tc the extension of our knowledge of the decorative art of the eastern Algonkin tribes. This has been made possible by the discovery of specimens, and by information furnished by several aged Indians of the Mohegan and Niantic tribes of eastern Connecticut.' During several visits in the winter of 1912-13, Mrs. Henry Mathews (Mercy Nonsuch), the only full-blooded survivor of the Niantic Indians, formerly inhabiting the shore of Long Island sound around the mouth of Niantic river, and the Mohegans, Cynthia Fowler, Charles Mathews, and the late Fidelia Fielding, the last person who could speak the Mohegan language, all contributed towards the nuterial here presented.' The principal f:eld of decoration among the Mohegan and Niantic, so far as we can now tell, seems to have been chiefly in paintings on baskets. Decorative wood-carving upon household utensils and sometimes upor implements was also quite common. Bead-work, on the other hand, appears to have been a secondary activity. A short account of the basket-making icself is required, before the basket decorations are described. For household and gardening purposes these people have developed a few types ' A few baakets made by ar M woman, named Pually Monuck, of tlw Tunxit tribe (in the vidnity of r ngton, Conn. ) were incidentally obtained. A number of years ago thia wo died at Mohegan, the last of her people. This entire collection is now in the possession of Mr. George G. Heye. * In previous papers the writer has ahvady published other ethnologic notes on the Mohegan and Niantic tribes. See Anthropological Papen of the American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.) vol. Ill, pp. 183-210 (1909), where are also listed papers in collaboration with Prof. J. D. Prince on the Mohegan language. ot bMkeU {mtmw'da* "recepude") varying In slupe, "t*. «d weave. The m«t duracterktk (orn» teem to have bwn recunguUr b^ket. • foot or lo in length, two-thlrdi m high. Md of proportionate width, and without handle., though ojttn provided^ oov«.. Theae are the houaehold .tor^ arfdej (PUtet I and II). For carrying garden product!, and for hand rm in .-meral. are tomewhat wnaller round-bottomed baiketa. with haiuH-. or baiU. ranging in width from 4 '««*« «P *» S-ket. .ith a capacity of half a »«-»«MPla«. 1 -"^ V^ Then we have the type known, anjong the Ind^^^^ Scotia to the Southern Sutea. aa "melon", "r^b . or B««^ bariceta (Hate III. upper right hand comer), providec' with baila, and al«> u«xi f or carrying. And. UaUy. there are the open work baaket.. «>me u! whld. are «»" J-JV ^^ Wwk othera are u«d a. trafaer. (PUte. IV and Y )• Th-e fall under the general type of open he«agonal twill baakett. Alltheaetype^of courae. are commonly found among ptarti^ •U the tribea of the Atlantic coaat. varying only m the nunor detalla of weave at the rim and the bottom. Aa to the materiala. the Mohegan and Nianttc. like the «,rthem New England tribe.. u«d prepared •P>«'«» «« «* bfown aah. Next In Importance ta the white oak. Here the pounding la unneoeaaary, the aplinta being more «^>yj«fj ft^mthelog. Swamp maple la d«> commonly ujrf by tte Mohegan baaket- makeia, although It la not aa durable aa either the oak or the aah. AU thete materiala go through the aame proceai« of prepara- tkm before the epUntt are ready to be woven. The first atage fa the proceaa conaiated In pounding the aah log all o^^w; and then aeparating the Uyera of wood. N«t. the lengA. o^ ^« were ahaved «nooth with a -Po""^^' ^''J^'T ~t ^^i European tool. Hand gaugea were then uaed to cut the Mm^ fato stripe of uniform width. Theae gai«^ ^^^P^^^J^ unlike thoae of the Penobacoxa. were provided with teeth made. teg (oUowiagvowd:' indie.", mwirtrer- -'«,<^ ^ff^LJ^^ oC Englidi Wi.|: other chwKtef. ufcJ te u.uwlption ci lodUn word. nMd no comment. in recent dayt, of dock springs; the width of the splint depending upon the dist«nce at which the teeth were set ,n the end of the g»uge. Anothet* small implement, a sort of hand planer through which the splint was drawn to make it finer, was also obtained at the Mobegan village (Figure 2). The knives of the crooked type, tenl-'tfiMiefC (Figure i), used by the Mo- hegans ior woodworking in general, have a very pronounced curve, and are usually mounted on wooden or sonu .mes buckhom handles. While not necessarily used directly in basket making, these knives are indispensable to the Indian workman. A very old bone pointed tool, probably a punch (Figure 4), seems to have been used in some way, perhapsinweavingthe basket rims. The ordinary weave among these tribes is the common checker-work. The basket bottoms are of two kinds, rectangular and round. In the recUngular bottoms the checker-work forms a foundation, the same proccr^ ontinuing up the sides. In the round-bottomed forms the spltats are arranged like the spokes of a wheel crossing and radiating from a centre. These splints turn upwards r_• _ tS designs themselves in the field of basketry decoration are pre-eminently floral, the figures being highly conventionaliz^. ?he main parts of the blossom are pictured. The corolla of the fiower forms the centre, surrounded by four petals, and commonly augmented by four comer sprays apparently representing the calyx from underneath brought into view. There is a fundamen- tal similarity in these pseudo-realistic representations occumngon all the different baskets, which shows that this was the prevailing motive in this kind of decoration. The corolla usually occupies The exposed surface of one splint, and the four petas occupy he sur'^nding ones, as is shown in the -tural s^e ilh^^at^n (Fieure 5). The colours in this specimen are limited to blue and red Cynthia Fowler, a Mohegan informant, named the flower the "blue gentian"; but how generally this name was used in former timL it is impossible to say. The^ flowers are usudly found enclosed within a larger diamond-shaped space, on one side of the basket, the enclosing border <»"«f >"« °f^f*'^5;* tine or chain-like line edged by dots. These dotted borders and the flower elements are very characteristic of Mohegan and Niantic work. The comers of the baskets from top to bottom also constitute another favourite field of omamentation. Here vertical alternating chain-like curves of several types appear. Examples of the available designs of both sorts are shown in Figures 6 to 14. The solid black in the sketches represents either black or dark indigo of the actual design; the lined spaces represent red. , . /c- „ a 7 » o^ Tuming to the design reproductions (Figures 6. 7. 8, v;, we observe a most consistent similarity in all those of the rosette type, to wit, the conventional centre, the radiating petals, and the enclosing diamond or four-curve, recurring with modifications in practically all of such designs. Some are very handsome, a few rather colourless. The dotting is very distinctive. Next are the line or border patterns, which, although adapted to linear spaces, are characterized, like the rosettes, by intertwined lines, dots, and petals. Frequently diflferent rosettes appear on each of the four sides of the same basket; and the sides are also occa- sionally quartered diagonally by one of the border or line patterns, and are thus divided into triangular areas, each containing a rosette. Unfortunately none of the painted figures show in the photographs, on account of their having become quite faint through age and wear.^ In this whole series of conventional painted patterns a general resemblance to northeastern Algonkin designs, as far north as the Naskapi of Labrador, is very noticeable. It is, moreover, quite likely that similar designs among the Narragan- setts were referred to by Roger Williams when he wrote, "They also commonly paint these (skin garments, etc.) with varieties of formes and colours."' A further extension of the ubiquitous splint basketry of the New England tribes, and the decorative work connected there- with, is furnished by another Connecticut tribe — the Scatticook, of the Housatonic river, near Kent. Their art is especially interesti.ig, because it has also just become extinct among their descendants here. As a tribe the Scatticook {Pisga"tiguk, 'At the fork of the river') were composed of exiled Pequots, Mohe- gans, and the remnants of western Connecticut tribes who formed a new unit in their new home.' Their type of culture was accordingly intermediate in some respects between the eastern Connecticut tribes and those of the Hudson river. ' I am indebted to Mr. Albert Insley for his careful work in deciphering and reproducing the designs on these baskets. "Cf. Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, London, 1643 (reprinted by the Narragansett Club), p. 145 and p. 206. • C(. article in Proceedings of American Philosophical Society, vol. XL II, No. 174 (1903), by J. D. Prince and F. G. Speck; also De Forest, History oj the Indians of Connecticut. ih i i To judge from a vocabulary which I obtained at Scatticook about ten yeare ^o, they had closer linguistic affinities with the Hudson River (Delaware) group. Until ten years ago the native art of basketry was preserved by the Scatticooks, and some specimens were then collected during several visits. It was found recently, in another visit to the tribe, that the industry had become extinct ; so our remarks are now based upon old spedmens and implements in the posses- sion of the Indians. The general character of Scatticook work is the same as that of the Mohegans. Instead of the maple, however, the Scatticook used white oak or brown ash. The method of preparing the splints was the same, as was also the case with the types of weaving (Plate VIII). In the round- bottom forms we notice the same flat radiating splints cut narrow at the edge, as figured before in dealing with Mohegan work. The Scatticook baskets are. as a whole, quite finely constructed of very thin splints. One somewhat distinctive feature is found here, namely, the very frequent use of the curlicue or roll as an ornamental feature. The curlicue consists of a splint run over one of the warp splints and twisted between two alternate standards, thus making a sort of twisted imbrication. The Scatticook, considering the embellishment as representing a sheU, call it "a shell"; and they term the baskets with this feature "shell-baskets" (Figures 15, 16, 17). Three modifications of this ornamentation are shown in Figures 15, 16, a and b; in Figure 16, a, the splint is twisted alternately between two rows of warp at a different level; in Figure 15, the splint is curled twice in a different direction, and forms a point; in Figure 16, b, the splint is twisted once between two parallel rows of warp. This is claimed by the Indians to be a native feature; and, since it is found in the oldest baskets from the region, there seems little doubt that it is aboriginal. The Scatticook seem to have employed almost exclusively pokeberry juice to stain the basket splints dark blue. In none of the specimens made in recent times do we find the painting upon the splints, as is the case among the Mohegans. The only record of this kind of work from the Scatticook is found in an article by W. S. Curtis,' describing a collection of old baskets obtained many years ago. The gauges made by these people are somewhat distinctive (Figures 18 a and b, and 19). One of their characteristics is that the decorations are largely functional, the object in the maker's mind evidently having been to provide a firm grip for the operator and at the same time to produce a decorative effect. This interesting feature is noticeable in the few specimens that were discovered on the reservation, and in several others in the possession of collectors. They are all highly prized by their possessors. In one case there seems to have been an attempt to portray a fish on the handle. Another instrument, a knife used in shaving the splints, is shown in Figure 20. While we may assume that some influence upon the art of the Connecticut Indians resulted from contact with the Iroquois, there is nothing to show that the former had such symbolic associations in their designs as did the Iroquois.* The general similarity of the Connecticut Indian decorations to those of both the Iroquois and the northeastern Algonkins is really too ambiguous to permit a final decision as to their affinities. Aware of these uncertainties, I feel, however, that the evidence sustains the conclusion that the stamped and painted designs are original to the southern New England Indians, and that they spread from them to the Iroquois. The occurrence of identical types of splint basketry and similar potato stamp decorations among the Oneida (Plate IX) and Onondaga,* might lead to the impression, were we to over- look resemblances with northern Algonkin designs, of an Iroquo- ian origin for the whole technique. In a recent visit, however, to the Cherokee of North C2irolina, for the purpose of tracing relationships between northern and southern art motives. ''Basketry of the Scattacooks and Potatucks,' Southern WorkmaH, vol. XXXIII, No. 7, 1904, pp. 383-390. > Cf A. C. Parker, American Anthropohgist, N.S., vol. 14, No. 4, 1912, pp. 608-620. * Spedmeiu in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. I also learned of the same decorations among the Iroquois at Oshweken, Ontario, and the Mohawks of Deseronto. 1 I I- nothing was discovered comparable to these northern types either in design or technique, although the eastern Cherokee are quite conservative. This naturally leaves the art of the south- em New England tribes to be tentatively classified as a some- what distinctive branch of the northern and eastern Algonkin field, with some outside affinities. From information and sketches furnished by Dr. J. Alden Mason, based on studies and photographs which he nade of New England baskets in the C. P. Wilcomb collection, Oakland, Cal., it seems that similar stamped splint baskets were found among the Indians as far as the Merrimac River valley in southeastern New Hampshire. Specimens in the collection referred to are supposed to have come from Union, Me., Lenox, Mass., Ipswich, Mass., and Herkimer, N.H. While not numer- ous enough to permit of discussion, the specimens from this eastern extension of the stamped or painted basket area show a type of design different from that of our southern New England tribes. The patterns are less elaborate. Although it is difficult to account for it, they seem to bear closer resemblances to the designs on Oneida baskets. North of the southern New England culture sub-area, which appears to have terminated at the Merrimac river, splint basketry and painted designs were replaced by the birch bark basketry and etched designs characteristic of the art of the Wabanaki group. A few examples of Mohegan and Niantic beadwork have survived the decay of Indian culture in New England. These miscellaneous articles are shown in Plates X and XI. They include moccasins, bags, and portions of costume. Whether they have all been actually made by Mohegans is not certain, except where indicated. One peculiarity of Mohegan art is beadwork upon birch bark. A couple of veiy old specimens (Figure 21) of this work have come to light. The foundation is the thin bark of the white birch. The beadwork figures are pranically all floral, though a few geometrical designs occur; and realism appears as in the butterfly representation. The floral designs seem to be somewhat related to those found in the basket paintings, although they are not so aboriginal in appearance. i 1 The beadwork designs are generally termed "forget-me-nots," "daisies," "yellow daisies," with buds, leaves, and stems. It should be noted in this connexion that from the earliest time the Mohegans have had some contact with Iroquois, especially the Mohawks, who from time to time visited the Connecticut Indians in small parties. During the early nineteenth century a number of the latter joined the Iroquois, with whom an inter- mittent relationship has since been maintained. It may be said in general, however, that the same type of floral beadwork extends throughout the whole northeastern and Great Lakes area, in which the Mohegan work may be included. Almost identical b^s, for example, both in form and design, come from the Mohegan, Penobscot, Malecite, Montagna>s, and Ojibwa. In the carving of wooden utensils, such as bowls, spoons, mortars, and miscellaneous articles, the Mohegans have shown considerable skill, as appears from what few articles have sur- vived among them. Some of their bowls made from maple burls are exquisite. Several of these have been described and illus- trated by Mr. Willoughby in a recent paper, the originals being in the Slater Memorial Museum, of Norwich. Wolf or dog faces facing inward from projections upon the rim are very well executed. Oftentimes s';-h bowls were decorated by inserting wampum beads into the wood, giving the outline and features of the face. These bowls were used until a few genera- tions ago for mixing native bread known as johnny-cake. Hardly inferior in workmanship to the bowls are the very distinctive Mohegan mortars (th'kwatig, "pounder") made of a pepperidge log, and provided with long stone pestles (gwu'nsnag, "long stone"). Three of these specimens, now in the Heye collection, are shown in Plate XII. Practically all of the large mortars for grinding com in the household, among the Mohegans, were of this type. Their sides were tapered toward the pedestcd, and there were from two to three handles on the sides near the bottom. Hollowed scallop work ornamented the edge of the pedestal. The mortars average about 17 inches in height; and their cavity, narrowing towards the bottom, is very deep. The stone pestle is 18 inches long. Until lately a few of these nrr* \ 10 heirlooms were cherished in several Mohegan families. The use of wooden spoons and ladles (ftyo'fwn) has not been entirely abandoned by these Indians. The designs of most of the forms are considered as aboriginal. They have rather broad oval— or sometimes even circular— bowls, sometimes flat-bottomed bowls; and the handles are of varying lengths, with rounded projections in the under side to prevent the ladle from sliding down into the pot. This favourite semi-decorative and functional feature also occurs in the handles of gauges (Figure 1). The spoons are usually made ot birch or maple. One or two ornamentally carved specimens were found. One with a dog's head at the end of the handle, and the bowl set at an angle to the handle, is in the Slater Museum. Another, recently obtained from the Indians (Plate XIII), has two human faces, back to back, at the end of the handle. The spoons range from 6 to 12 inches in length. Various types are shown in Plate XIII. Several articles of bone, ornamentally carved, have come to light. Chief among these are whalebone canes, with skilfully made carvings. The handle of one of these canes represents a very natural looking human hand (Figure 22). This same figure has been met with in the carvings of the Penobscot and Iroquois. A few miscellaneous articles made by old Mohegan workmen have been discovered during the investigation, one cf which is covered with decorative designs (Figure 23). No discuwion is warranted, since any possible interpretation has now been forgotten, even as to the function of the object. Strange as it may seem to find definitive material amid such deculturated surroundings, there can be little doubt that these tribes have preserved designs of considerable antiquity. Perhaps they belong to an eariy type of eastern Algonkin art, consisting of curves, circles, ovals, wavy lines and dottings forming floral complexes, having a ^ meral distribution in the north and east, from which the more elaborate realistic floral figures of bcadwork have developed. 4 11 Figure 1 . Mohcgan basket gauge. Figure 2. Mohegan hand splint planer. m^ mmu I l.< IiKiiri' .?. MnhcKan (nxikcd knives, with wood and aniliT handks. ill lip h; !1 *' 11 1 1 1 1 i 1 •• 15 Figure 4. Bone punch. Figure 5. Typical basketry design o( the Mohegans. I '4 i!!M .!■• I V\' 3 i £ I t7 %... » ...... .• • • ... s •- -^%5" . -^ r ■•T^».X-A« :# ^r?^ 5 c = ? ' i k * e = =.5 I'i'i i 4 ~T^ Hitl, i^" ! ; 19 t- \ 'H. .1' :«. • ••■ •• .» Oi ri,'-^c a, ..* .■ '•« .*• n I 5 o : %• •■, ; ,-,• _— — -o- ■= is. •I i * ~ I. i t : ■ 1 \ Mi i r s ■ , t\ U "!' 1 i ■ 1 It ; lih; 1 fl; li ii 1 21 >. '.\ X -•••-•' • • # • • • • ll • • •• •• • • • « • « >0». * t • « ♦ t « 'J .*' ,•/,"> ^ \ ^ ■S'^ ;i!!i- itnii liil: I {. #• > ^» 2i •^iniiiK* •• • ♦ • . . • • • • 2 = i 3 t ([|>>aintC(< designs. a, r, from specimen (Miihegan). b, from sp«finien u, PI. Ill, Mohcgan. d, f, from Curtis (ScattirfK>k:i. c, from specimen 6, PI. IV, Niantic. ^«% m mw^ v^ Figure 1.?. Linear I)ordcr designs from Mohegan painted Uiskets 29 ; -"S i *J M 1:J M liyiirf 15. The ciirlicui' or roll, in Scalliidok baskets l!4 ! " • !;„u i\n h if*. 35 (a) Figure 16. The curlicue or r Sc-attico<)k baskets. h'-f l-'inurc 17. BotiDiii i)f Scaliicodk haski'l, sliowiiiK trimming of radial splints. S 'h - k Jt I ■ S9 Figure 18 (a). Scalticook gauge. Figure 18 (b). Scatticook gauge. H u I i 41 M I-'igure 1''. Scatticouk naiiKfs lilt 4.? FiKuri' JO. Suttic(H)k splint iilancr. Figure 21. Mohegan Iwadwork on liirch hark. Fixture 22. Carved bone hard. if ■ : h 1 ! 1 1 ft I 45 1 e I:, 4i ".'••-> ,.t^:j**9««-' 4S si ! EXW-ANATION OF PLATE I. Mohcgan baskets (a and b painterf.) 49 f 111 \i ! I'l i\ i ,4u. 0? ■^ .. ' ^t - ^f V* - -^ - — - ,T!Ui»wt«i aiwfi.f,*);-*!!.,! ...i „..-..; .'/; »«^.. >^l a»'- I I ^i;^,/ (I SO i'H 'I :,"k Explanation or Plate II. Mohegan basketR (a, b, and e painted.) I ? h 51 # I m i i#: '« ;. ill M/.i'l n«) f.rilT/.iORKfH .tl-iliii«»"l- :. J rial" 52 Explanation of I*i.atf. III. Mohpgan Imsket*. a — Painted. I,.— Shows txiltom ronMruction. ss ^ w * V f .JlWk»,<„i ' I .t.lll 1.111 'I tn.i.l it! I- i m' 54 Explanation op Plate IV. Niantic and Mohegan baskets, a — Mohegan washing basket. b— Niantic storage basket made about 1840 by Mrs. Mathews at Black Point (near Lyme, Conn.) m 55 31 I- < r?t V d f 1 I' i: 1 I? I '*»^«|P.-!ISS(- .-/«:*-•.•. i|nin:i.i litJ^rloM f -■■ S6 Explanation of Plate V. Mohegan carrying baslcets. n I < i»Ti iS W nitnt.,' JtJ.- ^'ii?o>] !{/. *»♦"<■> ii!l U-* 1i ■' V .':7 3!/ r*' Hon r>^ MI'S 60 EXTLAMATION OT PLATB VII. Tuiuia bMkeu. Madt by PuaUy Mowiek, • Tuinb woi Fanniagtoii, Conn., who died about ItM at Motwgaii. hand baakct iligbtly painted. Wt 61 1 ^: !II7 ar/ ■'! o i/t.-IfK. • :-J^ ,^,V 1 62 Explanation op Plate VIII. Scatticook baskets, made by Rachet Mawee, Abigail Mawee, and Viney Carter, who died at Kent, Conn., about 1895. Ml 63 •• f m ■me^T^rm- '■Tuti^mi Wicy .4 U i ''. 64 Explanation op Platb IX. Oneida lUmpcd bukct (Heye coUection.) 65 w-i*- 66 ExrLANATIOM OT PLATE X. Mohcgan and Niantic nioccaiiiw. • — MolMgan moccaaina. 1>-Niantie moccaaina from tlie old rtMrvatkm at Black PWnt, Mar Lyme, Conn. 67 5 MKtOCOrr RBOUITON TBT CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No 21 ^ /APPLIED IIVMGE I ™^« '653 Eosl Main StfMt B-.S !',°f^"'t'■ """ ■">"■ '*609 us* ^= ('16) 48.- -0300 -Phone ^S ("6) 2S8-S9B9-Fo> J ..■■«i>jt;«jw^ i 68 Explanation of Plate XI. Mohegan and iViantic beaded bags (3 from the Heye collection.) 69 Plate XI. f- 70 Explanation or Plate XII. Mobegan corn morura tod (tone pwtle. 71 H!/: it r- ^ V .,» r 72 ExFLANATiON or Plate XIII. Mohegan Udlct and tpooiu. A • 73