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strips, whether of the same or different colors. The explanation will 
be clearer if it be supposed that there are two colors. If a strip of red 
is finished, or it is desired to shift from red to black, the former is cut 
off just beyond where the final stitch will be made before the change. 
The left end of the black strip, right side up, is laid over the right end 
of the red strip, that is, the ends overlap, right side up (fig. 39, a), and 
a stitch is taken over both, concealing the junction and holding them 
firmly. Care is taken that the end of the new strip does not protrude 
to the left from beneath the stitch. 
In a second method, occasionally used, the ribbons are placed end 
to end just touching each other instead of overlapping (fig. 39, b), so 
that the stitch covers the joining and at the same time holds both 
ribbons firmly. This is more difficult of accomplishment than the 
former method, because of the narrowness of the sewing splint. It 
is more commonly employed with “over and under two” than with 
“over and under one.” 
Instead of overlapping the ends of the ribbons of bark or laying 
them end to end, a few women place the new strip face down on top 
of the coil just beaded, 
with the end of the old ae cn 
strip and the beginning of 2 | ila 
the new meeting, both =--- } 
pointing to the right. a b 
After they have both been FiG. 39.—Joining of strips used in beading 
caught by the stitch, the new strip is folded back to the right 
over the top of the stitch and drawn tight, when the ordinary beading 
process is continued. With this plan, which has been used on a num- 
ber of Thompson baskets, the stitch which fastens in the new strip is 
not exposed as in the other two methods, but is finally covered by the 
bark. The old strip, like the new one, extends a little beyond the 
stitch. While a few women know all of these ways of joining ribbons, 
following any which seems most convenient at the time, they all have 
habits of work more or less firmly established, resulting in their 
preference for certain ones. 
As a means of ornamentation beading is still employed, particularly 
on lids and bottoms (pls. 3, b; 4, a; 8,¢; 9, c; 10, a,b; 11, 6; 50, a, e) and 
occasionally by the Lillooet on the walls (pl. 18,¢**). It will be remem- 
bered that a line of beading almost invariably defines the theoretical if 
not actual limits of the bottom, and serves to mark off the field avail- 
able for designs. Not quiteas often, it is found near the rim, delineating 
the top of the design field, while its appearance on top of the rim coil is 
by no meansrare. There seems to be no rule for its application, but 
practically always it may be found in a single line near the base of 
the side walls. 
% Another view of the same basket (pl. 57, g) shows that the beading is, as usual, confined to the side 
resting against the back of the person who carries the basket. 
