Word: basketworker
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Perfectly composed, the troop of assassins sat in court, each with his head completely covered by a basketwork hood, as is the Japanese rule when capital crime is involved. Alert and proud of his patriotism, Sub-Lieutenant Seishi Koga rose to testify: "We thought that a war with America was needed to rehabilitate the Japanese national spirit. We planned to blow up Premier Inukai and Mr. Chaplin together. It was only when some of us were arrested and we had to hurry our preparations to kill Premier Inukai that we gave up our plan to kill the American...
...season draws to a close with the arrival of Prima Donna Parka who takes a fancy to Mr. Massey, and since she must have scandal wherever she goes, kisses Mr. Bullfinch. The Masseys pay off their social debts with a lecture on the Ceramics, Basketwork and Tribal Life of the Ogilluwaya Indians. All in all, everybody has enjoyed the summer. Everybody has made so many humorous mistakes and mutual blunders that, like checks at the clearing house, they cancel each other...
...Peabody Museum has received a set of old Indian basketwork from Mr. Alfred M. Tozzer, a student in the anthropological department, who collected them among the Indians of North California. The baskets are made extremely carefully and are often the result of two or more years' work. The various designs in the straw are symbolic and show the coat of arms, as it were, of the family. Although unintelligible to the European eye, to the Indian they represent collections of arrow heads, tracks of various animals, quail crests and other significant symbols...