IDEAS COPIED FROM INDIAN BASKETS
The Anglo appropriated many Indian basket ideas for his own use:
The Penobscot colander was found in use as such among the people of this Maine tribe and was made about 1841. It is quite possible that we took this as a pattern for our own metal colanders. (See [Plate 10a])
It is also quite possible that we copied the pattern of the Catawba, North Carolina, fish trap for our own minnow trap. (See [Plate 4a])