184 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA  [eru. ann. 41 
just made at 5, which came up over the coil from the bottom and lay 
to the left and goes down to the right, where it enters a third hole 
just beside the second one (at 1) perforated in the lower coil. From 
here on the process is repeated, as described, from where the splint 
entered the second hole. 
Frequently the long parts of the stitches which seem to descend 
from the actual braiding are covered with twining or imbrication on 
the outside of the basket, a process which is even more complicated, 
since these must be put on at the time the braiding is made. Figures 
13, d, and 14, b, show the imbrication. 
Loopwork has been touched upon in the section on “Technique of 
coiling,’ but may be elaborated somewhat at this point. Rims of 
this character were used only on fancy baskets and have been in 
existence for a very long time; but since by their very nature and 
consequently greater fragility they lessen the utility of the baskets to 
which they may be applied, in the days when plain and useful baskets 
were greatly in demand they probably were not much in vogue. Of 
late years outside trade has called for less classic forms; and loop- 
work rims on many odd shapes have become very common. But 
even now a basket of the less utilitarian variety need not necessarily 
be finished in this manner. Probably the arrangements indicated 
in the sketches are all of late development. 
Occasionally this technique is introduced into the bodies of bas- 
kets, generally in the middle of the sides (pl. 16, a) and rarely the 
entire structure is of this type. This is said to be a very recent 
invention. The Klickitat, Lillooet, Stalo, and western Washington 
tribes use loopwork; but not the Chilcotin, Squamish, or Sechelt. 
Figure 15, a, shows a rim made of an extension of the original wall 
coil. After the finishing point has been reached on the basket the 
coil is simply wrapped, being stitched to the body only where it 
comes into contact with it at the bends (2). After this process has 
been continued all around and the starting poimt has been reached 
at (3) the coil is doubled, the two parts being sewed together. From 
here it is carried along horizontally, touching the loopwork only at 
the apices, and so returns to the starting point where it is fastened. 
Figure 15, b, is a common type; ¢ is flatter and less frequently 
applied; d and e are fairly common, although e is less so; f and g 
are rare, the latter especially; A is a prevalent style but is of two 
different kinds, loose and tight. When tight, the coils are in such 
close contact that no spaces can be detected between them; 7 is 
occasionally seen, both loose and tight. A straight coil running 
between the loops as in 7 is sometimes used with style A in the same 
way, and again a flat piece such as a ribbon of bark takes the place 
of this coil. Now and then bands of silk, braids of dyed or natural 
bark or horsehair, and formerly strips of beaded skin were drawn 
