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270 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTkept In coils until wanted for use, <strong>and</strong> then aresoaked.Black ash <strong>and</strong> basket oak, when green, separateeasily into thin sheets or ribbons along the line ofeach annual ring of growth, when beaten with mallets.The Indians, in making split baskets, cut thewood into sticks as wide along the rings as theThesesplits are to be, <strong>and</strong> perhaps two inches thick.are then bent sharply in the plane of the radiusof the rings, when they part into thin strips, nearlyor quite a/5 many of them as there are rings ofgrowth.

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