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strengthened by the addition of a board. The framework when com- 

 pleted is thoroughly concealed beneath a closely-fitting covering of deer 

 hide sewed on the sides of the basket. As in the original Carrier cradle, 

 breathing room is afforded by means of an osier hoop from which 

 toys or playthings, beaver teeth or nails, etc., hang in sight of the child. 



One peculiarity which I think is proper to the TsiiKoh'tin baby baskets 

 is the bark conduit which may be noticed in our illustration and whose 

 end is to preserve the infant against moisture, and also to reduce to a 

 minimum the trouble consequent upon bringing up such small children. 



As the styles of baby cradles differ according to the tribe, even so it is 

 with the mode of carrying them. A Carrier mother carries her child 

 hanging perpendicularly on her back by a strap running across her 

 shoulders and breast, while the Tsi|Koh'tin women carry their baby 

 horizontally on their back and suspended in its cradle by a tump line 

 passed athwart their forehead. In this they simply conform to the 

 custom of their southeastern neighbours, the Shushwap. 



The Tse'kehne vessels do not materially differ from those of the 

 Carriers, and their mode of treating and carrying the Tse'kehne babies 



tallies also with that of the latter. But the house- 

 hold vessels of the TsijKoh'tin have no point 

 of resemblance with any of those I have thus 

 far described. No bark vessels are seen among 

 them, as they replace bark by regular basket- 

 work. I regret my inability to present the reader 

 with an accurate description of their root weav- 

 ing process. Yet, if memory serves me right, I 

 think that they coil, not twine, the root according 

 to the method illustrated by Prof O. T. Mason 

 in the Smithsonian Report for 1884* and else- 

 where. However, all the household utensils I 

 have seen among the Tsi^Ivob'tin are broad- 

 mouthed and wallet-like, none of them tapering 

 up as some of the specimens quoted by the 

 learned professor. 



Their water vessel, the form of which I remem- 

 ber well, is similar to that illustrated on page 18 of 



Dr. G. M. Dawson's " Notes on the Shushwap 

 Fig. 123. ^ size. 



people of H. C," f save perhaps that it is not 



quite so narrow at the bottom. Many of them are elaborately orna- 



* Ann. Rep. Fart II., p. 294, i^late V. 



+ Trans. Roy. Soc, Canada, .Sect. 11., 1891. 



