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designs (the rule being either one or many), and in the dis 

 tinctly greater tendency toward arrangement in horizontal 

 bands. 



YANA. Indians of this stock are now so few in number, 

 that it is difficult to secure any material of which one can be 

 certain that it is native to the stock. In former times this 

 stock occupied the region between Little Cow Creek and Mill 

 Creek in Shasta and Tehama Counties, being surrounded by 

 the Maidu, Wintun, and Pit River Indians. At present, but 

 a handful of these interesting people survive, and they are 

 much mixed with the Pit Rivers. On Plate XXV, Figs. 1,2, 

 are two baskets, of which only the second can be regarded as 

 showing with any certainty a native design. In Fig. i we 

 have the wolf's eye, recalling somewhat the similarly named 

 design among the Wintun. The design in Fig. 2 is said to be 

 a house. Inasmuch as the basket itself is of a different shape 

 and type from those seen among the Pit River or Wintun, i 

 seems more probable that we have here a real Yana design. 

 Both were, however, declared, by the half Yana, half Pit 

 River Indian from whom they were obtained, to be real native 

 designs. 



DESIGNS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN AREA. 



The following baskets, obtained in Amador and Calaveras 

 Counties, from Indians belonging to the Moquelumnian stock, 

 are introduced here only for comparison of the designs as. 

 such, inasmuch as the meaning of the designs was unfortu 

 nately not obtained. 



On Plate XXV, Fig. 3, we have a very simple design, sug 

 gesting the Maidu earthworm and the Pit River and Wintun 

 deer-excrement. Fig. 4 would seem to connect itself with the- 

 water-snake and rattlesnake designs of the Southern Maidu.. 

 On Plate XXVI, Fig. i, is a design comparable, perhaps, with 

 the eye and diamond; while in Fig. 2 the quail-tip is exactly 

 reproduced. Fig. 3, again, is comparable to several of the 

 designs given in the previous pages. Of a quite different type, 

 however, is the design in Fig. 4, a design seemingly rather 

 closely related to designs in use by Indians of the Mariposan 



