188 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [ETH. ANN. 41 
last few coils of the main part of the lid, which instead of continuing 
in a horizontal plane, are laid vertically, one below the other at right 
angles to it, like the walls of a basket in relation to the bottom, if 
turned upside down (fig. 17, d). To fit this, the last few coils of the 
basket are laid vertically on each other to form a ‘“‘collar;” for, unlike 
the majority of baskets having flat lids, those with flanged ones 
usually have constricted mouths, the approach to which is an almost 
horizontal shoulder, on which a flanged lid of the third type would 
slide about unless supported on a collar. 
There are several variants of this group, which are not sufficiently 
different to be placed in subclasses. With some the flange slopes 
outward, the supporting ‘collar’? inward (see fig. 17, e). Occa- 
sionally the flange is made in a separate piece and then attached. 
A variation which in the main is like the first kind described under 
Type IIL is more carefully constructed than any so far discussed. 
It is used on straight-walled shapes, where, fastened by sewing to 
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the inside of the rim coil, is a thin slat of wood forming a hoop of 
exactly the right size. It lies on its edge, and over it, a coiled lid 
with a flange whose coils lie in the same plane as the walls fits so 
exactly that lid and basket walls seem to be one. The coils are 
perfectly matched and aligned. Plate 11, b, shows a very neat bit 
of workmanship on a lid of this sort. Figure 17, jf, indicates the 
arrangement diagrammatically. 
The conoid variety (Type III, b) is used on round or oblong shapes. 
The central part may be of watch-spring or parallel coiling, the 
encircling coils being gradually carried from a horizontal to a vertical 
plane in a curve which depends entirely on the eye and taste of the 
maker. When intended for oblong baskets, the corners are rounded, 
and the makers claim that the lids are no harder to manufacture 
than the baskets themselves. Some informants say that the conoid 
shapes are rather recent. In fact they nearly all agree on this point, 
but they believe that slightly conoid forms have been applied to 
nut-shaped baskets for many years. 
