Woven in about thirty days, the average size basket may have up to 10,000 stitches to the square inch. The finest machine made cotton sheeting has 3600 stitches to the square inch. The dark toned baskets were made about 1860 and the lighter toned ones were made between 1939 and 1944. These specimens are made by the _Aleut_ Indian women of a beach grass (Wild Rye) which grows on Attu Island. The stems and blades are about the size of wheat straw, and the _Aleut_ women split them with their finger nails. In 1741, Russian explorers discovered and settled the Aleutian Islands. They later found that the native women were wrapping their dead with finely woven, narrow strips of grass fiber and placing the bodies in caves. Russians then encouraged the _Aleuts_ to weave baskets of this same product. In the normal course of events, the Russians influenced the use of silk and cotton thread decorations on the baskets. In 1948, Edward L. Keithan, curator of The State Museum of Alaska, made a field trip to the Aleutian Islands and found only three women still practicing this fine art of basketry. Today, there is no continuance of this art. (See Plates 1c & 1d) GAMBLING DEVICES Case No. 2: Illustrated here are several types of gambling devices used by North American Indians: _Pomos_ of California, used a mat on which they threw their counters. (See Plate 4b) _Seneca-Cayuga_ of New York, used a wooden bowl and six flat, polished peach seeds for their famous “Peach Seed Game.” This bowl was brought to Oklahoma about 1840. (See Plate 4c) _Cheyennes_ of Oklahoma, used a basket bowl with wooden counters. _Pawnees_ of Nebraska, used a basket tray. This is the only type of basketry known to have been made by them. This basket was made before they were removed to Oklahoma. (See Plate 4d) _Klamaths_ of Oregon, used a different gambling device in that it was more of a guessing game. The mat covered the hands of the operator. The two bones are held, one in each hand, and rotated. The bet was made on the turn of the selected bone. These counters were usually made from the foreleg of a deer or elk. The Mongolian culture is well known to have a strong interest in gambling games. Some anthropologists tell us that the North American Indians came to this country many years ago across the Bering Sea from Asia and that they are descendants of the Mongolians in that area. MANIOC PRESS _Carib_—Guatemala and Venezuela Case No. 13: