 A round basket-tray, either loosely or closely woven, is evenly coated inside with clay, into which has been kneaded a very large proportion of sand, to prevent contraction and consequent cracking from drying. This lining of clay is pressed, while still...  Outing and the Wheelman - Page 1521902Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - 1886 - 792 pages
...sand, to prevent contraction aud consequent cracking from drying. This lining of clay is presse«!, while still soft, into the basket as closely as possible...inside of it, together with a quantity of glowing wood-coals. The operator, quickly squatting, grasps the tray at opposite edges, and, by a rapid spiral... | |
 | Frank Hamilton Cushing - 1886 - 70 pages
...inside with clay, into which has been kneaded a very large proportion of sand, to prevent contraction and consequent cracking from drying. This lining of...inside of it, together with a quantity of glowing wood-coals. The operator, quickly squatting, grasps the tray at opposite edges, and, by a rapid spiral... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1886 - 790 pages
...inside with clay, into which has been kneaded a very large proportion of sand, to prevent contraction and consequent cracking from drying. This lining of...inside of it, together with a quantity of glowing wood-coals. The operator, quickly squatting, grasps the tray at opposite edges, and, by a rapid spiral... | |
 | Garrick Mallery - 1886 - 814 pages
...inside with clay, into which has been kneaded a very large proportion of sand, to prevent contraction and consequent cracking from drying. This lining of...inside of it, together with a quantity of glowing wood-coals. The operator, quickly squatting, grasps the tray at opposite edges, and, by a rapid spiral... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology - 1886 - 792 pages
...inside with clay, into which has been kneaded a very large proportion of sand, to prevent contraction and consequent cracking from drying. This lining of clay is pressed, while still soft, iuto the basket as closely as possible with the hands and then allowed to dry. The tray is thus made... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1892 - 912 pages
...birthcradle in basketry. The ancestors of the Zufii were proportion of sand, to prevent contraction and consequent cracking from drying. This lining of...with the hands, and then allowed to dry. The tray FIR. S — Coiled Vase from a Cliff-house in Mancos Cafloti, Colorado. wont to roast seeds, crickets... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1892 - 964 pages
...loosely or closely woven, is evenly coated inside with clay, into which has been kneaded a very large is thus made ready for use. The seeds or other substances...inside of it, together with a quantity of glowing \voodcoals. The operator, quickly squatting, grasps the tray at opposite edges, and, by a rapid spiral... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - 1895 - 398 pages
...into the basket as closely as possible with the hands, and then allowed to dry. The tray thus made is ready for use. The seeds or other substances to be...it, together with a quantity of glowing wood coals;" these are made to rapidly revolve. "That this clay lining should grow hard from continual heating,... | |
 | George Wharton James - 1901 - 250 pages
...is pressed into the basket as closely as possible with hands, and then allowed to dry. See Fig. 6. The tray is thus made ready for use. The seeds or...coals. The operator, quickly squatting, grasps the tray at opposite edges, and by a rapid spiral motion up and down, succeeds in keeping the seeds and coals... | |
 | 1902 - 780 pages
...contr ction and consequent cracking from drying. This lining of clay is pressed, while still scft, into the basket, as closely as possible, with the...coals. The operator, quickly squatting, grasps the tray at opposite edges, and by a rapid spiral motion up and down, succeeds in keeping the coals and seeds... | |
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