288 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA _ [eru. ann. 41 
Figure 76 depicts a basket in which the shortcomings of the indi- 
vidual maker are as clearly disclosed as if one knew her personally. 
Beginning with the bottom coil of the walls, as shown in a, 6, and 
d, it is evident that she planned to border her vertical stripes 
with two rows of stitches instead of the one row which she adopted 
at the next round. Evidently she was influenced in her decision to 
make the change by the fact that when she reached the end of the 
first side at the corner she discovered that by poor measuring the edge 
of her last stripe on this face would come exactly at the corner, whereas 
the first stripe was begun 21% centimeters in from the left corner. 
Nevertheless, on the succeeding three sides she continued putting 
in two imbricated stitches where the edge of each stripe was to come, 
although she had omitted the second stitch at the corner just dis- 
cussed. In addition to this 
mistake, in the first vertical 
stripe she had placed one too 
many stitches so that the bot- 
tom chevron was not exactly 
centered, necessitating an ex- 
tra stitch on either side where 
the chevron extends to the 
edge at some distance up on 
the stripe. Then in the cen- 
tral stripe not only on this side, 
but also on the opposite long 
face, she began the design in 
the stripe with two stitches, 
which in the following round 
Fic. 76.—Basket showing change in the plan of deco- ghe reduced to one which could 
relies: UpSEN- Mi, 21608 not be (or was not) centered 
above the two, thus giving the base of the figure its unsymmetrical 
appearance. In the second row, in the first vertical stripe on 
the side marked a, the edge stitches of the vertical stripe are 
placed above the outside stitches of the two used in the first 
round; in the central stripe one side is continued upward from 
the inner stitch, the other from the outer. The third stripe was 
necessarily continued from the inner of the two stitches of the 
first coil because of the short distance between the second and third 
stripes, which perhaps was now more apparent to her. On the end 
(6) the continuation of the stripe from its foundation of two (and 
three) stitches for either edge is symmetrical, but does not corre- 
spond to what occurred on the first face, since here the continuation 
proceeds from the inner of the two stitches on each edge. On the 
second long face we have still other methods of procedure, as we have 
again on the second end. Doctor Haeberlin’s notes state that the 
stitches on the entire basket are unusually irregular, part of which 
