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Rh with it, and in the New World it is difficult to find groups of tribes entirely innocent of the art. About the only localities without basketry are among the eastern Eskimo, and parts of



the bison and guanaco areas, all specialists in skin work.

The subject has received a great deal of attention and that great master of material culture, O. T. Mason, has left us an excellent treatise. Our museums have extensive collections,