ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 429 



Plate 159 represents old Klikitat baskets, coiled and little iiiil)ri- 

 cated, in the collection of Miss Anne M. Lang, The Dalles, Oregon, 

 At once the difference will be seen l)etween these conical and quite 

 aboriginal forms and those of rectangular shapes farther north in the 

 Fraser and Thompson River countries. The method of ornamenta- 

 tion is the same, but the borders are finished olf with c-onsiderablc 

 skill and taste in braided work. In the National Museum are photo- 

 graphs of excellent old pieces in the Harvey collection in Albuquerque. 

 For the sake of comparison, Plate 1<!0 is inserted to show later and 

 more highly embellished foi'ms. 



The baskets made in imitation of a truidv are used for a similar pur- 

 pose and not for berries. The Hudson Bay and other people ])rought 

 camphor trunks from the Hawaiian Islands, taken there from China. 

 The work is wonderfully good in this as well as in others. The intei"- 

 esting part is that the weavers before this time had made baskets with 

 rounded bottoms, and began, of course, with the coil in the center; 

 but the oblong shape with corners was another matter, so a thin board 

 was covered with cloth to form the bottom, and on the edge of this 

 the bone awl was used to make perforations to fasten the first row on 

 this l)ottom. Later baskets had an ingeniously woven bottom over a 

 number of narrow slats, and the patient weaver subsequently mastered 

 an ol)long coil. 



From a report of the Conunissioner of Indian Affairs, Governor 

 Isaac L. kStevens, 1854, the following statements are taken iji order to 

 comprehend the migrations of the tribe after whom imbricated ware 

 has been popularly named: 



Tlie tribes of the Klikitat ami Yakima inhaljit i)n)perh' the valley lying l)etweeii 

 Mounts St. Helena and Adams, but they have spread over the distrirts ])elonging to 

 other tribes and a l)and of them is now located as far south as Umpqua. 



The Klikitats and Yakimas in all essential peculiarities of character are identical 

 and their intercourse is constant, but the former, though a mountain tribe, are more 

 unsettled in their hal)its than their brethren. The fact is probably due in the first 

 place to their having been driven from their homes many years ago by the Cayuses, 

 with whom they were at war. They then became acquainted with other parts of the 

 country, as well as with the advantages derived from trade. It was not, however, 

 until a))out 1839 that they crossed the Columbia, when they overran the Willamette 

 Valley, attracted by the game with which it abounded and which they destroyed in 

 detlance of the weak and indolent Callapooyas. They still boast that they taught th?; 

 latter tribe to ride and hunt. They manifest a peculiar aptitude for trading. 



Under the term Walla Walla (p. 228) are emlu-aced a nund^er of 

 bands, living usually on the south side of the Colum])ia and on the 

 Snake River, to a little east of the Palouse. 



The Tai-tin-a-pam, a band of the Klikitats already mentioned, liv- 

 ing near the head of the Cowlitz, were called by their eastern brethren 

 wild or wood Indian. 



