A 1917 magazine article promoting basketry as an accessible craft for amateurs. It surveys natural materials such as cattail leaves, rye straw, willow, poplar splints, pine needles, corn husks and maidenhair fern stems, and compares Native American gathering practice with shop-bought supplies. It describes three illustrated baskets: a plaited cattail handkerchief basket, a rye straw coiled work basket sewed with palmetto, and a wrapped twining catchall basket in the style of Vancouver Island Indians.