166 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA  [erm. ann. 41 
class of much heavier coil. One tray made by a Lytton woman has 
coils 4 mm. and stitches about 2.5 mm. wide, while the coils of a 
rattle from Spuzzum are about 3.5 mm. and the stitches about 2.3 
mm. wide. ‘These are considered by all those consulted to be of fine 
workmanship or, as they say, good examples of a “thin hand.” 
Occasionally near the rims of baskets the coil, instead of being laid 
flat and sewed to the previous coil, touches it only at intervals, being 
pulled up into loops and wrapped instead of sewed where it does not 
come into contact with the preceding round. This style of finishing 
the rim will be taken up in detail under the section entitled “Structure 
of baskets.”’ It is sufficient to note here the occasional increased 
size of such looped coils or of the horizontal ones which sometimes 
top them and act as the rim proper. Greater durability is vouch- 
safed as the reason for the larger diameter, as it Is In many similar 
cases. 
Of 10 trays measured, 2 had plain rim coils thicker than those com- 
posing the main part of the structure. Their diameters are given. 
Basket No. 1.—Rim coil 8 to 9 mm.; others 6 mm. 
Basket No. 2.—Rim coil 8 to 9 mm.; others 7 mm. 
Two had looped tops which differed in size from the rest of the 
coils. 
No. 1.—Average coil 5 mm., loop coil 3 to 4 mm., rim coil 6 mm. 
No. 2.—Average coil 7 mm., loop coil 8 mm., rim coil 7 mm. 
This second basket had low, abruptly sloping sides, and tne coil 
where sides and bottom met was rather thick (8 mm. in diameter). 
Trays more frequently had coils of uniform thickness throughout, 
while other forms often displayed rims thicker than the rest. Again, 
many loopwork rims were thinner than the body, so it is not justifi- 
able to make any generalization in regard to this point; but what- 
ever may have been true of these special parts, the coils in the walls 
are as like each other as handwork will permit. 
One spa’nék basket was peculiar. The bottom was of round 
coils averaging 7 mm. in diameter, while the coils of the connecting 
part of the lower side walls were 8 mm. From this point on, the 
sides of the basket consisted of slats of wood combined with splints 
in the same wrapping, lending a pronouncedly corrugated effect and 
creating a unique “coil” the cross section of which was triangular. 
The splints were laid on the slats on the inside of the basket. These 
coils averaged 12 mm., while the rim, which was round, was about 
7 mm. in diameter. The maker said she used slats in order to build 
up the sides more quickly, though it is not clear how this could have 
been accomplished, as there was almost as much sewing to do as 
when pursuing the old method, and the building up of the coil by 
means of splints on the inside, to say nothing of preparing the slats, 
required no little time. It seems rather that a saving of splint 
