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aware these were the only common shapes in use. The Cowlitz 
made fewer of the oblong baskets (.ké‘pa’i) than the tribes imme- 
diately north of them and toward the sound. Probably not all the 
tribes west of the Cascades made coiled basketry. 
Parfléches.—Parfléches were of the same shape as those obtained 
from other interior tribes and came into vogue after the introduction 
of the horse. Tribes to the north and east were using them long 
before the Klickitat. Later the Klickitat procured many from the 
Yakima and afew from the Wallawalla, but seldom manufactured their 
own and when they did they left them unpainted. The Yakima were 
merely traders, however, acquiring their stock from the tribes 
east of the Columbia, although occasionally they made and painted a 
few. Buffalo and horse hide, and in later days cowhide, were the 
materials used by all the tribes. 
Basketry designs.—The designs on soft and hard baskets were of the 
same character, some having numerous variations. The pattern 
generally covered the whole field, arranged in horizontal, diagonal, 
or perpendicular bands. Zigzags were common. <A few coiled 
baskets were unimbricated, others were ornamented only with 
beading, and the appearance of more than one pattern on the same 
basket was rare. The designs used by the Klickitat and Yakima 
were almost entirely geometrical and the names given them were the 
same. Cowlitz designs were practically identical with those em- 
ployed by the Klickitat, but those used by the Wishram and Wasco 
were of quite a different character, consisting of quite realistic animal 
figures with names such as ‘‘people,’”’ ‘‘man,” ‘‘woman,” ‘‘deer,”’ 
“buck deer,”’ ‘‘dog,’”’ ‘‘horse,” ‘‘salmon,” ‘‘butterfly,” ‘head,’ and 
“face (human).’’ Among the few geometric designs made by the 
Wishram and Wasco were the Klickitat ‘“‘arrowhead” and ‘‘eye” and 
simple lines generally horizontal but occasionally perpendicular. 
The Tenaino employed realistic, animal, and geometric designs in 
about equal proportion. The Indians say that there has been little 
or no change in Klickitat basketry designs since the earliest times, 
that very few patterns have been introduced, and that white men’s 
designs are not copied, excepting in cases where whites may give a 
special order for a basket to be made with a certain design, such as 
the American eagle. These never become tribal designs and are 
seldom reproduced. Most of the common Klickitat designs and 
variations are represented in the collection of the American Museum 
of Natural History. 
