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adjusted the two central zigzags.of the third zone to admit of placing 
the flattened one where it belonged. 
The corner of the basket (pl. 60, e) tells the tale of the struggle 
the maker experienced in attempting to align her zigzags. If the 
reader will examine the plates carefully a number of what have been 
called smaller errors in stitching and imbricating may also be located. 
These do not require special comment, particularly since so much has 
already been said along this line. 
The remaining plates (pls. 60, a; 61, 9,7; 62, b) present some realistic 
decorations of more recent origin, showing that among the Chilcotin, 
as among the Thompson, a new departure in basketry ornamentation 
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Fic, 106.—Chilcotin designs 
is in progress. Among the Chilcotin representative work is not badly 
done and approaches the realistic to a greater extent than that of the 
Thompson. 
Considering the intercourse that all of these tribes have had 
with one another, directly or indirectly, it is to be expected that 
similarities in the matter of designs should frequently be encountered. 
But the Chilcotin are more individual in this respect than their 
neighbors, as Figures 106 and 107 and the platesshow. The major- 
ity of patterns are noticeably rectangular, a feature which is more 
common among the Lillooet than among the Thompson, but in nei- 
ther of these localities is the trait so marked as it is here. 
Sketches Nos. 1-6, Figure 106, are variations of ¢, Figure 107, 
although it is doubtful if they would all be given the same inter- 
pretations, namely, ribs of mammals. They are arranged either 
