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occur again in Fig. 8, with the addition of the grasshopper- 

 shoulder, and with the " meshes of a fishnet" about the ex 

 treme edge. Still another form of mountain is shown in 

 Fig. 9, in combination with leaves about the base. 



The familiar quail-tip appears again on Plate XXVIII, Fig. 

 i, here in combination with crossing trails; the same design 

 apparently occurring again in Fig. 6. In Fig. 2 the crossing 

 trails occur once more, combined with what is called " zig 

 zag." The remaining designs in this group are not explained. 

 Fig. 4 is strikingly suggestive of the Maidu flower design, and 

 is here executed with great symmetry. Figs. 5,7, are appar 

 ently to be regarded as local variations of the red mountains. 



Associated, apparently, with the zigzag, we have the quail- 

 tip again on Plate XXIX, Fig. i, the quail-tip here occurring 

 as a row about the edge. Fig. 2 surely, and Fig. 3 probably, 

 is the zigzag alone; the latter being an especially effective 

 treatment. A very good example of the arrow-point is that 

 shown in Fig. 4. In Fig. 5 the crossing trails again make 

 their appearance. 



The large woven baskets of the pack-basket and storage 

 types show a profusion of ornament ; a very considerable num 

 ber of designs, or repetitions of the same design, occurring 

 on a single basket. On Plate XXX, Fig. i, for example, the 

 upper row, immediately about the edge, is meshes in a fishnet, 

 and consists of a succession of parallelograms or squares. This 

 is succeeded, in passing toward the base, successively by zig 

 zag, red mountains, half arrow-points, red mountains and 

 zigzag combined, zigzag, red mountains, and zigzag. In Fig. 

 2 the design is not explained; but in Fig. 3 we have again a 

 long series, beginning at the top with meshes in a fishnet, zig 

 zag, red mountains and zigzag, red mountains and zigzag, red 

 mountains, zigzag. A simpler ornamentation is that on Plate 

 XXXI, Fig. i, in which the red mountains are arranged in a 

 spiral, and the meshes in a fishnet again occur in a row about 

 the rim. Fig. 2 shows again a combination of designs, beginning 

 as usual with the meshes in a fishnet, and followed by zigzag, 

 meshes in a fishnet, zigzag, zigzag, and lastly, apparently, the 

 meshes in a fishnet again, although this is not certain. The 



