Boas] DESIGN ELEMENTS 255 
spaces not covered by the real designs. Usually they consist of 
rather large single representations which occupy the side of a basket. 
(Pls. 21, c; 22, b; 23, a; 24, f; 44, a, g; 45, a, b, d-g, ~-k; 46, e, 9, h; 
47, ¢; 52, a, b; 76.) 
Apart from the general conception of tleé’ka designs, there is 
among some informants a slightly different idea as to what character- 
izes them. If a realistic representation of a deer, for instance, appears 
once as a fairly large single figure, it is called tlné’ka, but if this 
figure is small and repeated many times in some regular order, a 
real design is the result, and it is named ‘“‘deer pattern.’ The 
regular deer design may be seen in Sketches 790 and 791. There 
is no reason why one woman may not execute either type of design; 
she usually makes the one which she knows best. Those not know- 
ing how to reproduce a real deer pattern (that is, with a tribally 
prescribed arrangement) may attempt it, in reality producing 
tlké’ka patterns to which they give the name ‘real deer design,” 
but this, according to authorities in the tribe, is wrong. They say 
that any pattern not conforming to the rules of arrangement is 
tlné’ka. Under these conditions Sketches 804—806 showing the eagle 
are tlmé’ka, as are Sketches 746 and 798-800 (pls. 92, 93), which 
depict the butterfly, no matter whether they are large or small or 
whether or not they are used as fillers. 
Other informants differ on this point. To them the best, that is 
most realistic, representations of birds and animals, etc., are given 
the highest standing, or are called real designs and designated by 
the names of the creatures or objects pictured. According to these 
individuals, those patterns which are less detailed and are arranged 
in groups are considered more or less conventional, having been altered 
to suit the conditions. With these people, all forms, including the 
realistic, are called true designs or parts or variations of them, while 
the tlmé’ka are those which have not yet been generally recognized 
or adopted, bemg new or as yet untried in arrangement or not 
reduced to conventional form for convenient basketry decoration. 
The following sketches are termed by some people tlné’ka, not real 
designs: 430, 740, 838, 844, 848, and 859 (pls. 88-94). 
Others include in this class most of the flower and leaf designs 
shown in Sketches 219, 539, 546, 642-644, 658, 659, 665-667, 733, 
741, 742, 792, 793, 828, 842, 843, as well as panther, salmon, otter, 
beetle, and other rare realistic figures which are seldom reduced 
to any standard arrangement. 
There are people who place in the tlné’ka “a all patterns, even 
though they are really geometric, which have been copied from 
white sources, or invented by women, which have not yet been 
applied in regular basketry arrangement but merely in single figures 
or on small baskets. Such are the designs appearing in Sketches 
