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Innumerable other objects are also manufactured by the Thompson 
and Lillooet, including backs for quivers; shields, which were of 
slats woven together with cordage or splints, but not so far as known 
of coiled ware; gaming rings and targets; toys of all sorts, which 
comprise miniature lodges; tents; sweathouses; grave fences; and 
boxes and doll carriers, ornamented with streamers of dyed bark, 
feathers, beads, shells, teeth, and hoofs.- The little houses are fre- 
quently imbricated with designs representing house beams, and 
furnished with miniature ladders, carved and painted. For ‘“ under- 
ground houses’? only that part which shows above the ground is 
constructed. 
The Lytton people, the Upper Thompson, and Upper Fraser Band 
even undertook to manufacture spoons of coiled work, 
and so ingenious is their construction that it seems 
worthy of a full description. 
Some are toys for little girls and therefore not very 
durable, but those intended for actual use are rigid 
enough for all purposes. Where the handles show 
signs of bending, a light rod or slat is lashed to the 
back throughout the length, or occasionally a thick 
strip of rawhide or the stiff leg sinew of a deer is sub- 
stituted. The spoons formerly in use are said to have 
been strong and rigid, perhaps 35 cm. in length, over 
9 cm. across at the bowl, and 2.5 em. across the handle. 
They were as thick as one round coil of basketry such 
as would be used in a burden basket, perhaps 7 mm. 
A loop or hole was left at the end of the handle for 
suspension. Usually spoons, if ornamented at all, bore 
only lines of beading. However, only a few of the * pied 
bands used spoons of basketry; the common ones were _ making of a bas- 
of horn and wood. mary eDoe 
Figure 33 shows the method of construction. The center of the 
handle is made by folding and wrapping a coil, catching the two 
sides together with medial sewing. One loose end is doubled back 
at 1 and the end caught in the last of the wrapping which covers the 
original double section. This folded end is then covered with a 
sewing splint, and then the other end, which is longer, is brought 
around it and sewed, ending at 2. Three short pieces of coil (some- 
times consisting of a single piece doubled back and forth) are sewed 
around the outside of these to form a nucleus for the bowl-shaped 
portion; a new piece is started at 3, the end being sewed down to the 
central part of the handle, after which it is brought around the top 
as a loop, separated from the rest, and wrapped to the corresponding 
point 4 on the other side. From here it is carried completely 
around the spoon to the point from which it started, where it is 
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