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Here also the Fraser River people who manufacture them display 
their inventive genius. The Lower Thompson have only recently 
attempted to make them, while the bands east of Thompson Siding 
never have done so, but used woven mats and bark vessels instead. 
The former distribution of coiled-work trays and dishes is not 
known, but the people say that there were not many long ago. 
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Fic. 30.—Types of trays 
Those used for household purposes were rather plain, being orna- 
mented near the rim with a line of beading or imbrication in an old 
arrowhead design. Imbricated ornamentation on the inside bottom 
was unknown in former times, but at the present time for the ceremo- 
nial utensils an elaborate scheme of decoration of this part has come 
into vogue. Although the people discriminate between the various 
sizes and forms according to the uses to which they are put and use 
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Fic. 31.—Types of baskets—a, tub-shaped; b, c, box-shaped 
distinctive terms for these, the common name for this type of utensil 
is zalt. 
A circular tub-shaped basket sketched in Figure 31, a, is a modern 
form which is occasionally made by the Fraser River people, generally 
of sapwood foundation coil. They call these baskets .nkwoi’tseEmEn 
or .ntsau’méEn, names which they also apply to washtubs and basins 
of white manufacture. Mason *! shows a specimen of this type in 
his Plate 156, which he says comes from Port Douglas in the country 
of the Lower Lillooet. 
210. T. Mason, Aboriginal American Basketry. 
