250 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [ETH. ANN. 41 
although technically it may be so characterized. The banded ar- 
rangements are very common in squares of this size on old baskets. 
Recent specimens present squares subdivided, as shown in Plates 
41, b, d, f;44, 6,2. (See also the sketches on pl. 85, Nos. 348 et seq.) 
The large square in outlines is used as an element by the Chilcotin. 
It seems to have enjoyed great popularity among them and is found 
in a variety of styles. The people not only bifurcate their stitches 
with remarkable accuracy but also on many baskets bring their 
splints over the face of the coil in an almost vertical direction, 
keeping the diagonal direction on the reverse side. Being thus able 
to place their stitches almost exactly over one another, the Chilcotin 
impart to their basket surfaces a vertical effect which is quite as 
pronounced as the diagonal ribbing on a piece of serge cloth (pls. 
58-62). 
It is impossible to say how much influence the technique has had 
on the art style developed, but it is certain that habit, whatever 
may have been the initial cause, has led to two very different styles 
with the two peoples. 
THE RECTANGLE 
The large and small rectangles are more common than the squares 
as elements and seem to have been suggested very often by the 
horizontal direction of the construction of the basket. Small ones, 
only a coil in height and three or four stitches long, are often seen in all 
black or red, or when longer, in sections of different colors (pls. 21, d; 
27,6, c,d). Tall rectangles (really placed on end) cover usually three 
coils and two-stitches and are sometimes seen in the dark colors, but 
rarely in white. A common and fairly old vertical stripe arrangement 
is composed of a series of black and white tall rectangles (pl. 26,7 ). 
The first pair may be black to the left, white to the right. Joined to 
these and immediately above is another pair with color reversed, 
and so on (pls. 34, d; 56, d; 57, d). This idea does not seem to have 
been developed further. 
The largest rectangles, extending over several coils, are usually 
about twice as long as they are wide and are generally horizontal. 
They are worked in black, red, or white, and appear singly or 
in vertical, horizontal, or diagonal series as well as in checker 
formation (pls. 24, A worked in a wide coil; 26,a). They are varied 
by subdivision into smaller vertical or horizontal rectangular fields. 
One was divided vertically into four sections, the two ends being 
black, the two centers white; others were composed of three, of 
which the center was white, the outer two black, or vice versa. 
When the division is into horizontal fields along the line of the coil 
regular alternation of dark and light seems to be the rule (pl. 45, 
l, m). In the modern basket (pl. 52, 7) white fields alternate with 
