314 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA _[erm. ann. 41 
regarded as two legs. The key design in sketch 166 is very interest- 
ing (ef. sketches 197 and 198, p. 316). The foot elements, facing in 
opposite directions, as in sketch 169, are called hooks, feet, or grass- 
hoppers, and from this arrangement may be traced very clearly the 
relation to sketch 170, which is also a typical Klickitat and California 
pattern. Sketches 171 and 172 to 175 give different arrangements. 
The last is especially interesting because it is the well-known swastika. 
Its explanation here as caterpillars crossed is instructive as illus- 
trating the often humble interpretation of highly artistic motifs for 
which a deep symbolic significance is claimed. In sketch 176 the 
central shaft is thickened. The name caterpillar still remains. 
Sketches 177 to 179 show the broadening of the whole figure which 
retains the old interpretations, but in 179 the whole has become so 
broad that it is sometimes known as a duck. There may be other 
derivations of this figure, as indeed there probably are for a great 
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number which have only been discussed from one point of view 
(sketches 471 and 501, pl. 87). 
For want of a better classification the T figure shown in sketch 
180 may be considered as belonging to the group of right angles with 
one long side. Formally, it is either a doubling of this figure or an 
entirely different motif. It is certainly given somewhat different 
interpretations. Root digger and cross are the two most usual, since 
it closely resembles both of these objects. It is called head very 
frequently because it is used so often to represent the heads of men 
and birds, being one of the nearest approaches to realism in repre- 
senting this part of the body that is possible in coarse basketry 
technique. It is also rarely called fishhook, but there is some doubt 
about the propriety of so designating it. Sketch 181 shows its use 
in ornamenting a vertical stripe. The elaborate and highly artistic 
design shown in sketch 182 is known as the leg or foot pattern, 
