230 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [ETH. ANN. 41 
Lillooet designs.—Lillooet designs are divided horizontally into two 
fields, the upper and larger one with imbricated background covering 
the entire surface and bearing one large design in outlines, which 
occupies the whole space. ‘This is sometimes divided vertically into 
two complementary and symmetrical sections. There are perhaps 
eight or ten designs of this character and rectangular in construction. 
As an accompaniment of these, there extend from this field into the 
lower, which has a plain, unimbricated background, two or three ver- 
tical stripes—droppers—bearing small geometric figures. Plate 18, a, 
represents a Lillooet basket in which the upper half has no imbri- 
cated background. 
In a second characteristic Lillooet type of decoration the field is 
ornamented with vertical bands ascending from base to rim (pls. 35, 
b; 37, a; 57, a). Many baskets of this class are constructed of broad 
flat coils which are distinctive of the Lillooet. 
On many Lillooet burden baskets the side that les against the back 
of the person who carries the basket is beaded. (Pls. 18, c; 27, h; 
HONG Ib 1Gs 92) 
Chilcotin designs.—Almost all the Chilcotin baskets have three dec- 
orative fields, the upper and lower imbricated entirely, and bearing 
designs which are alike, the middle being either unimbricated, except 
for lines crossing it and connecting the other two fields (pl. 59, a), or 
imbricated, bearing totally different patterns (pl. 60, a). 
Other tribes.—Mr. Teit says: 
That the basketry of other Interior Salish tribes also had peculiarities seems 
likely. So few specimens are obtainable nowadays from the Shuswap and 
southern Salish tribes that it is impossible to ascertain their styles of orna- 
mentation. The Shuswap claim that although some of their baskets were so 
much like those made by neighboring tribes that they could hardly be dis- 
tinguished from them, yet on the whole a Shuswap product could be told from 
others by its general appearance, there being certain minor points in workman- 
ship, shape, and designs by which it could be identified. Yet in the absence 
of specimens it has been impossible to learn the exact nature of these differences. 
The same is said of the basketry of the Moses,33 Columbia, and Wenatchi, 
although it seems that on the whole the arrangement of the ornamentation on 
their baskets was similar to that of the Thompson. 
Thompson designs.—Long ago, according to native informants, 
three ways of dividing the design field of burden baskets were in use 
among the Lower Thompson, perhaps also among the upper bands. 
First type. The field was arranged in two sections. The upper 
occupied about two-thirds of the entire side, the lower one-third. 
Occasionally the two sections were more nearly equal. The upper 
was imbricated over its entire surface with a light background and 
dark designs, but on the lower the designs appeared on a background 
of bare coils. The designs in the two fields were unrelated. Some- 
38 These people were commonly called by this name after one of their prominent chiefs. 
