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of the fourteenth coil. When these insertions were put in, the coil 

 could run twice continuously around, when new insertions were nec- 

 essary. A cross section shows 23 coils, but this appears not to be the 

 whole number. The insertions were 12 in number, all lying in the 

 minor axis, or to the right. The end sections of the basket required 

 no insertions, the wall being built as if it were the process of the 

 customary round basket. 



The pattern consists of pairs of zigzags w^orked in black, probably 

 devils-claw arranged axially, except the upper zigzag, which has 

 three arms (see pi. 2, fig. 2). This pattern would be called a light- 

 ning design of the four points of the compass. The lightning ele- 

 ments broaden toward the rim. Diameter, 17% inches by 16^/4 

 inches; height, 53^ inches (U.S.N.M. No. 245916). This basket is 

 an example of the devices used to work out eccentric shapes as in the 

 Klikitat and some northern baskets described bv Boas and others.^ 

 It is apparently the earliest specimen showing this technique. 



LARGE BASKET BOWL 



Regularly s6wed, over a rather large coil. The rim coil shows at 

 only one place, five coils having been worn away. From the caked 

 debris on parts of the basket it is inferred that it was used for mor- 

 tuary purposes. From the tenth coil arise stepped figures in black 

 extending over 16 coils and rising three steps. On the walls of the 

 basket are at wide intervals small sections vertical and horizontal 

 in black, the vertical extending down from the rim. The figures are 

 obscured by fading and can be traced only on the bottom of the 

 basket. There are 50 coils in the basket. The material is willow, 

 the method two rod and splint. The design appears to be in 

 Martynia (devils-claw, or unicorn plant). Diameter, distorted, 191/^ 

 inches by 16 inches; height, approximately 614 inches. (PI. 3, fig. 2.) 



CARRYING BASKET 



Widely flaring, ovate basket in fragmentary condition. Much of 

 the stitching has been worn away, especially where the basket came 

 in contact with the body. Repairs of extremely crude stitching with 

 yucca have been made, and several sections of coil have broken away 

 on one side. The bottom of this basket is flat. The foundation coils 

 are long-oval, and the oval shape is built up the walls to the top, 

 giving a basket of long-ovate outline suitable for carrying a load 

 adjusted to the back. There are no traces of design. The rods 



= Haeberlin, H. K., Teit, JaniPS A., and Roberts, Helen H., under the direction of Franz 

 Boas, Coiled basketry in British Columbia and surrounding region. 41st Ann. Rep. Bur. 

 ^mer. Bthnol., for 1919-1924, pp. 119-626, 1928. 



