244 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [ETH, ANN. 41 
to that of the stripe, almost rhomboids. In this style of art they 
seldom are wide enough to give that impression, as they do in 
Californian baskets, and in addition, they are here almost always 
associated with the vertical stripe, whereas in California they are 
usually connected with the spiral or diagonal. 
Where the design figures do not come close to the edge—and here 
again, closeness is only a comparative term, depending on the width 
of the stripe and the width and shortness of the figures—the reverse 
designs appear not so much like triangles as like vertical lines with 
serrated edges. Plate 37, a, demonstrates this. Although in this 
sample the lines extend to within one stitch of the edge and in diagonal 
patterns the edge is almost never broken or interrupted (see pl. 
39, c, for a rare, exceptional specimen), the figures are so broad and 
short that these single stitches along the edge form a distinctly con- 
tinuous line. (See also pl. 49, d.) 
Next to the checker stripes, those enlivened by diagonal parallel 
lines are the most common of any to be seen on either Thompson 
or Lillooet baskets. 
There are besides these many other combinations which will be 
treated briefly. Perfectly plain stripes are occasionally seen, espe- 
cially on newer baskets. (PI. 36, e, f.) 
The zigzag is more rarely used than might be imagined. Plates 
37, d; 42, g, show two of the few examples. The employment of 
diamonds formed by an intersecting zigzag is also rather rare. 
The chevron is a popular figure on the vertical stripe. Plates 
37, e, and 38, d, show it in the usual position and color, light on a 
dark ground. Plate 38, c, gives a variant, not only because of the 
reversed color but also because of the alternations in direction of the 
chevrons on the different stripes. Occasionally, as in Plate 42, g, 
a combination of up and down turning chevrons occurs in one ctripe 
resulting in the diamond in the middle. This is exceptionally ornate 
and beautiful. 
Triangles in vertical series turning up or down are also employed 
on vertical stripes. (Pls. 37, 6; 39, a.) In either case the reverse 
triangles along the sides are necessarily on the same level. In fact, 
the reverse triangles are always so situated in opposite pairs, whether 
they turn in different directions or not. It is this fixed character 
of reverse patterns that is most striking, for an uneven alignment 
is not impossible. Did such an arrangement occur, there would be 
no very evident design down the center, a condition which is utterly 
foreign to the Thompson stripe, unless the whole stripe be divided 
from side to side by diagonals, as is shown in Plate 39, ce. 
Because of the truncation of the triangles in Plate 39, 6, and 
the short distances between vertical stripes, it is difficult to decide 
which is the design and which the background. The black triangles 
