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elbow are also arrow-points. The sticker's tail is shown in 

 Fig. 2. Almost identical with the design known to the Pit 

 River Indians as "deer-gut " is that shown in Fig. 3, here 

 explained as a water- snake ; while the rattlesnake's head is 

 represented in Fig. 4. The wolf's eye is shown in Fig. 5. An 

 obscure and rather complicated design, apparently, is that 

 known as " flying geese " (Fig. 6), which occurs in a somewhat 

 different form in Fig. 7. Here the body of the design is the 

 flying-geese pattern, while about the edge is a row of arrow- 

 points, and below, about the base, a row of rattlesnakes' 

 heads ( ?). Fig. 8 seems to have an upper row of arrow-points, 

 with the bear's foot below. 



2. Designs representing Natural or Artificial Objects. What 

 is called simply the "empty spool" is shown on Plate XXIV, 

 Fig. i. This explanation is far from satisfactory, but at 

 present no other can be given. Fig. 2 is given the same 

 explanation. The design on the basket in Fig. 3 is declared to 

 be " leaves strung along," and suggests at once the Maidu vine. 

 The deer-excrement occurs in Fig. 4, in a somewhat different 

 arrangement from that of either the Maidu or Pit River 

 Indians. The diagonal stripes of Fig. 5 are stated to be 

 "pulled around," alluding, apparently, to their spiral ar 

 rangement. Figs. 6, 7, are each explained as "striped;" 

 while Fig. 8 is known as "cross ways." 



From the limited amount of material here presented, but 

 few reliable conclusions can be drawn. We may note, how 

 ever, that, in the matter of the arrangement of designs, while 

 spiral and zigzag lines are common and horizontal bands 

 are also quite frequent, vertical lines as used by the Pit 

 River Indians, although sometimes met with, are rare. Of 

 the thirteen designs here shown, more than half are animal 

 designs, and but one is regarded as the representation of a 

 plant. Although, as a rule, but one design is placed on a 

 basket, yet we find instances where two or three are thus used. 



The general characteristics of the stock would seem to be 

 much the same as those of the Pit River or Palainihan; the 

 chief difference being in the relative frequency here of snake 

 designs, in the tendency to extremes in the grouping of the 



