A short note from Science describing a collection of Barotse and Bechuana baskets recently received by the American Museum of Natural History. The author lists the woven and coiled basketry techniques present, including wicker, checker, twill, wrapped, twine variants, the California 'ti' weave, and several coil types, and compares them with Californian and Aleutian basketry. She notes the emphasis on sturdy storage chests and the black-only coil decoration.

A two-page article from Science (June 5, 1891) on Manila hemp cultivation in the Philippine Islands, based on a report by the British consul at Manila. It covers soil and climate, planting and crop timing, harvesting and hand-cleaning of the fibre with knife and board, drying, costs, labor arrangements, land ownership rules for foreigners, and 1890 export figures. It does not deal with African basketry or weaving.

A one-page note from Science (1911) by Mary Lois Kissell of the American Museum, New York, describing a nearly vanished wrapped-weaving technique found on an expedition to the Pima of southern Arizona. Stiff slats, often saguaro cactus ribs, are bound with a pliable element such as thong, string, rope, cloth strips or wire. Variations include a simple wrapped weaving and a lattice-wrapped form with a perpendicular slat. The author speculates that it is an early technique and notes similar work in Malaysia, the Lower Congo, Mexico and among Pacific Northwest and Plateau peoples.

A short note from 1911 describing a remnant technique of wrapped weaving found among the Pima of southern Arizona, in which a pliable binding element is wrapped over parallel slats of saguaro cactus rib. It describes three variations, including lattice wrapping, in which a perpendicular slat is added for strength. The author speculates that this simple technique may be among the earliest basketry methods and notes similar wrapping in the Malaysian Islands, the Lower Congo, Mexico, and several Native American groups of the north.

Article describing a previously unrecorded method of spindle spinning among the Cowichan and Thompson Salish peoples of British Columbia, using a very large spindle held in the hands and a tension ring or chair back to draft the roving. Kissell compares it with free-spindle and sustained-spindle spinning, Tlingit hand spinning, ancient Egyptian and Greek practices, and neighboring tribes, and argues it is the most elementary use of the spindle. Illustrated with a Paul Kane painting (1846) and a 1915 photograph taken at Musqueam.

A short 1909 article in Science proposing a uniform classification and terminology for basketry techniques. Kissell divides basketry into plaited, woven (wicker and twine) and coiled ware according to construction process, and compares her scheme with those of Otis T. Mason and J. Lehmann. It ends with a condensed outline key listing types such as checked and twilled plaiting, wicker and twine weaves, and the various lace and plain coils.