298 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [erH. ANN, 41 
Lip PrRoBLEMS 
The lid problems, especially where the designs are carried over 
from the walls so as to make one complete whole, present some even 
more difficult situations. We can not but admire the artistic sense of 
a people who treat a basket as a whole, from the standpoint of design 
and wall structure, for it will be remembered with what care many of 
the modern specimens are constructed with flanges on the inside of 
the orifice to support lids whose edges turn down so as to meet exactly 
and lie in one plane with the wall coils. Plate 48, 6, ¢, is a striking 
example of the ingenuity and craftsmanship as well as of artistic taste 
sometimes displayed. Figure 88°! is given here to show the meas- 
urements taken by Doctor Haeberlin which exhibit the great care 
exercised by the maker during the building of the entire structure. 
The number of stitches and measurements on the one side are given 
in Figure 88. On the opposite side the number of stitches from left 
to right is 4 (114 em.), 16 (5 cm.), 14 (4 em.), 16 (434 cm.), 16 (414 
em.), 16 (44% cm.),5 (14%ecm.). Nevertheless, designs such as vertical 
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Fia. 88.—Measurements of basket. U.S.N.M. 216420 
stripes, which are an excellent means of decorating baskets with 
trapezoidal faces, are not at all amenable to successful adjustment on 
oval lids. This is very evident from the basket seen in Plate 48, 6, ¢. 
Viewed from the side, the handling of the design is admirable, but, 
owing to really very slight inaccuracies in circumference subdivision 
and the leftward lean of the vertical pattern, a difficulty from which 
the finest craftswoman can not extricate herself without a total change 
of technique, the lid is anything but satisfactory. We wonder that 
it appears as well-as it does. This is one of the lids that is either 
worked from the circumference toward the center or else coiled left- 
handedly. The latter is not probable, since the alignment of the 
design is so perfect where the lid edge meets the basket. 
Plate 48, a, is a photograph of a design executed with astonishing 
accuracy in the face of the almost overwhelming obstacles presented 
by the technique and with the type of ornamentation chosen. In 
Plate 35, ec, we find a much happier selection of design and the product 
of a very able technician. 
5! The three vertical bands indicate the space of the rectangular patterns on the long sides of the basket. 
