176 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [ETH. ANN. 41 
other. The padding or coil on one side of each slat, which is incor- 
porated with it in the same binding (fig. 10, 6), furnishes the hold for 
the sewing material which penetrates it. Sometimes, however, the 
sewing splint merely interlocks with the stitches binding the previous 
slat. When the bottom is sufficiently large, the remaining part of 
the bunch of splints belonging to one half is carried across the ends 
of the slats to the right as in the case of parallel coiled bottoms. 
It conceals as best it can the exposed as well as the covered ends, and 
when it reaches the loose splints which served as padding on the 
other half of the bottom, these are gathered into the encircling coil, 
in the manner described before (p. 171), and the process of sewing 
around the bottom is continued. During this process the bottom 
itself is turned to the left as the sewing moves to the right, just as 
in the other types. 
This particular variety is not much in favor, and although several 
women know how to make it few of them put their knowledge into 
practice. The only advantages afforded by it are that it requires 
fewer splints and much less time, and that greater flatness is obtained 
than with parallel coiled bottoms. The Upper Thompson consider 
it very inferior and less durable. They say that only a few can 
make it well and finish it neatly across the ends, which is indeed a 
difficult problem on account of the irregularity of line of the ends 
along which the encircling coil must pass and to which it must be 
fastened. One woman who manufactures this variety oftener than 
her neighbors has partially solved the difficulty by placing the 
alternate slats a little out of line, so that the exposed ends are even 
with the covered ones. She also at times divides her splints where 
they bend around the ends so that some of them may be deflected 
in order to conceal the bare places. After this purpose has been 
accomplished, the remaining pieces are turned in, caught by the 
sewing splint, and sewed between the slats. She does not do this 
every time, but apparently only when she fancies that it is needed. 
It is an invention of her own. 
Several methods of treating the ends are in use by the other women. 
Some bore a hole with the awl through the bare end of each slat, 
and passing the sewing splint through this, fasten it firmly to the 
encircling coil as it goes by. But as the wood is liable to split, espe- 
cially if it is brittle, longer stitches are sometimes taken, the perfora- 
tion being made down where the slat is covered with wrapping; 
thus, even if the wood does split, a better grasp is obtained and the 
stitch can not pull out at the end. 
The secand type of slat bottom resembles the first except that the 
slats are not inclosed by a bunch of splints which so effectually 
assists in sewing them together; but one slat is bound with a splint 
as in type 1, and the rest are sewed to this and to each other, 
