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Kawbia ritcha, turtle neck. 



K^y6, quail tip. 



Khja, tip or top. 



Lelan (lilan) in the middle. 



Mato, large; Kalcha niato, arrowhead large. 



Mi sit, point; or miset (?). Upper Lake Porno. 



M sa kalle, spiral, or snake; name of a certain s])otted snake. 



Pau shna, acorn top (Pan, com, and shna, head). 



Sakalle (Yokaia for snake). 



Siot sio, zigzag, waves. 



TcJdkaka ke-ya, quail tip (Tchikaka, (juail; kc-ya, topknot). 



Una leu, crossing. 



Utcha, neck. 



Mr. Purdy's interpretations of Ponio .synibol.s will l)e found in Dr. 

 Dixon's paper before quoted. If the reader have a eollection of Ponio 

 baskets, an examination of the S3^mbols on them in comparison with 

 the Dixon plates will demonstrate what liberties the basket weaver 

 took with her designs. May be, it were ])etter to sav, what strugoles 

 she made to realize a design or symbol under general and special lim- 

 itations. 



POMO (kulanapan) designs, dixon's plates 



Arrow point. (Plates 29, 30, 33, 36.) Quail tip. (Plates 27, 28, 29, 36.) 



Buckeye tree. (Plates 27, 34.) Red mountains. (Plates 27, 30, 31, 33, 

 Crossing tracks. (Plates 28, 29, 34, 36.) 34, 35.) 



Crow's track. (Plates 34, 35. ) Spotted fawn skin. (Plate 27.) 



GrasshopiJer leg. (Plate 27.) Unknown designs. (Plate 32.) 



Leaf. (Plate 27.) Zigzag. (Plates 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36.) 

 Meshes in fish net. (Plates 30, 31, 33, 

 34, 35. ) 



To illustrate the technic of symbolism, Plate 81, Catalogue No. 

 203398, collected by Dr. d. W. Hudson, is presented. It shows a 

 gift basket of the Pomo Indians, made by a Yokian woman whose 

 name is Keshbim, who worked upon it seven months. The pattern is 

 a pictograph of a feast, the bottom of the basket being tule mats 

 (bitsan) interspersed on the assemldy hall Hoor, not shown in the 

 figure. The band of rhomboid figures around the bottom is the roof 

 of the dance lodge w^ith its rafters crossed and interlaced, and the 

 dancers, male and female, are celebrating the Ma a ca ka (food-falling) 

 harvest (acorns). The Pomos have four seasons in their year, begin- 

 ning on the first full moon (cha na bu sa da, thuml) jnoon) in duh", and 

 Sahanim, smoke-floating time, has four moons; Ma a ca ka has three 

 moons, beginning with Batooda, index moon. Kat sa na, green 

 earth, has three moons, and Kat sa mi, green-things time, has three 

 moons. This basket, under the old regime, would have been presented 

 to some friend during the feast, demanding a very handsome return, 

 for no one appreciated a fine piece of work like a Pomo woman. The 

 foundation is of willow rods. The sewino- i.s not done with linen 



