BOAS] LYTTON DESIGNS 333 
therefore, confined to the family but was made by a number of old 
women, all of whom agreed with the informant that it was common 
and old and frequently associated with bead designs. The same in- 
formant stated that the fish-backbone pattern (see Sketch 150, pl. 81) 
was used long ago on basketry but had gone out of fashion. 
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LUZ “A Ld) 7s ds ZZ 
Fia. 94.—Basket designs from Lytton 
The patterns 6, ¢, d, also in Figure 93, were old Lytton designs, but 
d is not used nowadays. 
Another old woman gave the necklace patterns shown in Figure 
94. Now they are sometimes called “chain-and-notch”’ designs. 
They were employed not only in basketry but also for embroidery 
in beads or quills, and the choice of colors was not confined to any 
definite order. 
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Fia. 95.—Basket designs from Lytton 
Of the designs given in Figure 95, a—e, a and ¢ were on a ‘‘nut- 
shaped”? basket the maker of which said they were called stars 
when large and flies when small. Some women omit the large figure 
at the top. 
Those remaining, which are variations of the leg design, were very 
old embroidery patterns, the meaning of which is unknown to the 
present generation at least. The variations given here were seen on 
Lytton baskets and were joined in large connected patterns or, 
broken into fragments, were scattered over the surface (fig. 95, f-k). 
