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There are about thirty basket-makers among the Havasupais, and specimens of their work may be found in the Hopi House. As Havasu Creek is lined with willows that are admirably adapted for basket-making, and as an abundant supply of martynia, or cat's-claw, is found on the plateaus above, this Canyon is a veritable basket-makers' paradise. Their best work is done in the coiled stitch.
On our way across the camp we saw a great quantity of the seeds of the Martynia proboscidea, mouse-burrs as they call them, devil's claws or toe-nails: they are curious-looking things, as the annexed woodcut will show.
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