PLATE XII. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



Fig. 20. Showing regularly woven cedai-burk wallet of Bilhoolas. The bottom and 

 sides are all in checker pattern. By* an endless variety in reoil and pro- 

 portional width of warp and weft thread, and by coloring some of the 

 threads, an infinite number of ])atterns is produced. The fastening oft" ia 

 done as in Fig. 12. In many cedar-bark baskets of this region the two sets 

 of threads run diagonally, producing a diamond rather than a chrcker pat- 

 tern. Again, much more rarely three elements are involved, an open-work 

 of two sets running diagonally, and a horizontal thread running through 

 the open rhombs, in and out, as in multitudes of Japanese baskets. Col- 

 lected in British Columbia, by James G. Swan. 



Fig. 21. One square inch of Fig. 20, natural size. 



