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deeply influenced the neighboring Athapascan and Sonoran tribes, 

 while at the same time the decoration of their basketry bears a close 

 relation to that of Californian basketry. Although I do not know the 

 interpretations of designs given by the Apache, Pima and Navajo, it 

 seems probable that they have been influenced by the ideas current 

 among the Pueblos. Among the Pueblos themselves — and in these I 

 include the tribes of northern Mexico, such as the Huichol — there are 

 well-marked local styles of technique and of decoration, and a general 



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Fig. 12. Tlingit Baskets. (Specimens in the possession of G. T. Emmons.) 



similarity of interpretation. I think the marked prevalence of geo- 

 graphical interpretations found among the Salish tribes of British 

 Columbia, the Shoshone and the Arapaho is another instance of distri- 

 bution of a style of interjiretation over an area including divers styles 

 •of art. 



In a few cases it seems almost self-evident, from a consideration 

 of the interpretations themselves, that they can not have developed 

 from realistic forms. The multiplicity of Arapaho explanations for 

 the triangles which I mentioned before suggest this. According to 

 G. T. Emmons,* the zigzag and the closely allied meander in Tlingit 

 basketry have a variety of meanings. The zigzag may represent the 



* ' The Basketry of the Tlingit,' Memoirs American Museum of Natural 

 History,' Vol. III., pp. 263 ff. 



