198 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA _ [ern. ann. 41 
and Group IV are for storage of large amounts of food or clothing. 
The Indians recognize further subdivisions by descriptive terms, 
such as large, small, medium sized, low, high, very small, very 
round, big or small mouthed, constricted. In the appendix are given 
all the names that have been secured (pp. 395 et seq.). 
The various kinds of baskets are not local forms but are rather 
generally made by all the divisions of the tribe, although there is a 
tendency on the part of different bands to manufacture some kinds 
more than others. The forms, Figure 26, a—f, are very common 
everywhere, while the remainder are made chiefly by the bands 
along the Fraser River. Those around Lytton perhaps preferred 
round forms like those of Group III, while the Lower Thompson 
favored oblong shapes similar to those represented in Group IV. 
Most of the largest .stlik are made by them, while their neighbors 
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Fia. 26.—Types of burden baskets 
produce a smaller size of the same variety. The bands east of 
Lytton made none of these storage baskets, and only a few round 
forms. 
Group I. BurpEN BASKETS 
As might be inferred from their general distribution and popu- 
larity, the burden baskets represented by the first group are the 
oldest forms. Their shapes range from a truncated cone to a trun- 
cated pyramid, and the former is said to be the older form. Figure 
26, e, f, g, approximate old Wenatchi types which the Thompson 
imitated long ago. Their shape lay probably between these and 
those represented by a and 6. These old forms were deeper in 
proportion to their diameters and resembled the earlier birch bark 
shapes; * but they are no longer made. The sketches a@ and 6 
18 Another old type resembled some of the modern forms such as Figure 26, h, but had straighter walls. 
It was like those existing among the tribes in southern Washington west of the Cascades, such as the 
Nisqualli and Cowlitz, and is said to have been used by the interior Salish along Columbia River, 
Among the Klickitat the tendency of late has been away from this type toward a distinctly conical form, 
with very small bottom and flaring walls. It is doubtful if the tribes living east of the Cascades, in the 
State of Washington, ever made any but circular forms. 
