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The designs were almost entirely geometric and resemble those 
seen among the Klickitat. 
Western Washington.—In this region imbrication came in at a 
comparatively late date when the technique of coiling was learned. 
Eastern Washington and Idaho.—Among the extreme eastern Salish 
groups imbrication was not practiced, but it did extend into the 
Coeur d’Aléne country. Among these people, and over the whole 
intervening area between them and the Columbia, which includes 
the Lake and the Lower Kootenai, some imbrication occurred, but 
the majority of baskets were undecorated. 
The Sanpoil and Nespelim say that they learned to imbricate 
about the time that the first white men entered their country, and 
because of this, some of their people think that it was taught to them 
by Europeans. 
The Flathead say that their baskets were unimbricated. The 
Okanagon adopted imbrication about the time of the arrival of the 
whites. The Lake tribes manufactured mostly plain baskets, but 
ornamented some with imbrication in grass or bark which was 
colored black or left white. Most of the products of the Kootenaj 
were plain, as were about half of those of the Coeur d’Aléne. The 
Columbia used imbrication to a much larger extent than the other 
groups just mentioned. 
The materials used were basket grass, natural or dyed (the latter 
was usually the case with the Coeur d’Aléne), cedar bark, natural or 
dyed, willow bark, and rarely that of the cherry. The colors were 
black, white, red, brown, and yellow. The designs were geometric, 
apparently. 
For the purpose of summarizing the above discussion the following 
list is given of the distribution of imbrication among the Flathead 
and allied groups. It also indicates which of the tribes produced 
numerous shapes. 
IMBRICATION 
Coeur'd¥Aléne=s2= 93 44 eee Imbricated about one-half of their output 
(introduced about the middle of the eight- 
eenth century). 
Balke #07. BIIO MMi eee Imbricated about one-half of their output. 
Columbia S432 22 2a ly. Imbricated the majority of their output. 
Wenatchitcr aia! ee tare Imbricated the majority of their output. 
Klathead 8 3" (isp e eee a Had no imbrication. 
Sanpoil and Colville__--------- Formerly none; have imbricated during the last 
century. 
OkimagonAte or tee. eee Formerly none; have imbricated during the last 
century. 
8 The Lake tribe mostly used grass for imbricating. 
