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)