332 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [eTH. ANN. 41 
Figure 92 gives a few which may have been taken from Plains 
art but which have been used for many years at Lytton. Regarding 
the “hourglass”’ figure in a, which was seen on a Lytton basket, the 
maker, who was about 76 years of age, said it was a tsrne’ka design. 
She said her mother had always given it this name and that the pat- 
tern was very old. Figure 92, b, is a variation of a and most of the 
people call it an arrowhead design, but really it is a tsene’ka according 
to the same authority, who sometimes uses it on her baskets. She 
stated that the points which break the inner triangles were frequently 
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made longer and sometimes pointed; c is still another variation of 
the same pattern, and it is said that there are others, but these have 
not been obtained. 
The Thompson ‘leg leaning”’ design (fig. 92, d) was also made 
by this old woman, who did not know its name, although she was 
aware that it was very old. The name she had given it was “leaning 
hook,” but she thought it might be part of a necklace pattern, since 
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she had heard some Thompson women give this name to similar 
patterns. 
Another Lytton basket was decorated spirally in all-over fashion 
with the design shown in Figure 93, a. The maker was an elderly 
woman who did not know the name of the design, although she had 
used it several times on baskets, changing the colors as she liked. 
She thought some people called the pattern a variation of the bead 
design. Her mother and grandmother had used it and the grand- 
mother had said it was a very common old pattern. It was not, 
