“ 13. Linear border designs from Mohegan painted baskets. 29
“ 14. Body designs from Mohegan painted baskets. 31 _a_, on the top of the basket; _b_ on the sides.
“ 15. The curlicue or roll, in Scatticook baskets. 33
“ 16. The curlicue or roll, in Scatticook baskets. 35
“ 17. Bottom of Scatticook basket, showing trimming of radial splints. 37
“ 18. (a) Scatticook gauge. 39 (b) Scatticook gauge. 39
“ 23. Decorated Mohegan wooden object. 45
Plate I. Mohegan baskets (_a_ and _b_ painted). 49
“ II. Mohegan baskets (_a_, _b_, and _c_ painted). 51
“ III. Mohegan baskets. 53 a--Painted. b--Shows bottom construction.
“ IV. Niantic and Mohegan baskets. 55 a--Mohegan washing basket, b--Niantic storage basket made about 1840 by Mrs. Mathews at Black Point (near Lyme, Conn.)
“ VI. Mohegan baskets, fancy work baskets, and wall pocket. 59
“ VII. Tunxis baskets. Made by Pually Mossuck, a Tunxis woman from Farmington, Conn., who died about 1890 at Mohegan. Lower left hand basket slightly painted. 61
“ VIII. Scatticook baskets, made by Rachel Mawee, Abigail Mawee, and Viney Carter, who died at Kent, Conn. about 1895. 63
“ IX. Oneida stamped basket (Heye collection). 65
“ X. Mohegan and Niantic moccasins. 67 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). 69
“ XII. Mohegan corn mortars and stone pestle. 71
Decorative Art of Indian Tribes of Connecticut.
A fortunate phase of the research work among the Indians of New England has recently led to 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.[1]
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 material here presented.[2]