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stock farther to the south. In Fig. 5, also, we have a highly 

 characteristic use of the simple zigzag, a design which, in this 

 shape, seems also to be more southern than northern in its 

 affinities. 



DESIGNS OP THE POMO GROUP. 



The Indians of this stock occupied a considerable area to 

 the west of the Wintun tribes of the Sacramento Valley, 

 spreading over most of the Russian River region, and between 

 it and the coast. Like the Maidu, the Porno or Kulanapan 

 tribes make both coiled and woven basketry, and their baskets 

 have, as has been shown by Mason, 1 a remarkable number of 

 forms. The Maidu were accustomed to decorate their baskets, 

 to some extent, with interwoven feathers, and pendent and 

 fixed bits of shell and beads, but never, apparently, reached 

 anything like the perfection of the art to which the Porno at 

 tained. Owing to the great extent to which several designs 

 are combined on baskets from this stock, it is not possible to 

 separate the baskets into classes as before ; but to some slight 

 extent we may preserve the same order of treatment. 



Apparently quite common among the Porno, is the quail or 

 quail-tip design shown on Plate XXVII, Fig. i. The design 

 is here combined with the red mountains, these being the 

 triangular figures; while the quail- tip is shown in the inter 

 vening space. A different treatment of the quail-tip is that 

 in Fig. 2, the design here forming a fringe along the edge of 

 A the red mountains, and again slightly different in Fig. 3. In 

 Fig. 6 the quail-tip occurs only on one side of the mountain 

 design. The red mountains occur again in Fig. 4, in com 

 bination with the quail-tip and also with the spots on a fawn, 

 represented by the linked parallelograms. Similar, except 

 that the red mountains are in a double row, is the design in 

 Fig. 5 ; and here, again, the quail-tip appears about the base, 

 although in this form suspiciously similar to the zigzag on 

 some of the pack-baskets. Fig. 7 contains the red mountains 

 and also the buckeye (compare quail-tip). Red mountains 



1 O. T. Mason, The Technique of Aboriginal Basketry (American Anthropologist, 

 N.S., Vol. Ill, pp. 109-129). 



