308 
COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 
(ETH. ANN, 41 
Design NAMES 
Meaning in 
Klickitat name English Plate numbers 
1iOtewtitscat tee etl Ae 63,)a, ¢3'65, ajc 
2, SEOs (dl) ee ee Bullsnake_ _ ~_ 
ei LXer (a) eee 
4. Tca/wena___---- 
5. Keshwi’kweza_-_ 
Os Reteni cans eee 
7. Tso/umtsoum____ 
8. Wati’ke (J)_---- 
9. Assay! (J)... en 
AJso called 
a'teac. (J) 
Waxti'c 
- PErtxti nox. 
4 Bizpizeertesh J 
. Cwa’t’ac (J)__--| 
Leg or foot___ 
Gill 
Contracted 1__ 
Footprint -_ - 
Finger-nail ___ 
Arrowhead ___ 
@lond! ase 
Nplice == aan 
Bar or line 3___ 
Root he as 
63, f, h; 64, c; 66, b; 67, d; 68, e, f, 7; 74,7, n 
63, d,\e; 66, n; 67, k; 74, g, m, are said to 
be variations arising from the combina- 
tion of “leg” and “gill” elements. 
Those on 74, g, were called ‘‘gill’’ by one 
woman and “‘leg”’ or “‘foot”’ by another, 
while a third said that they were des- 
ignated by bothterms. 67, k, is said to 
be a variation of the ‘‘gill.” It appears 
that some variations of the “leg”? and 
‘sill’? designs have become merged so 
it is often difficult to decide which name 
to apply. 
68, k; 70, 0, are examples; 65, a, is given 
the same interpretation; 74, i, is a vari- 
ation; 74, f, is called “‘zigzag connecting 
up and down”; 67, k, is said to be the 
“Jeg” design combined with the “‘zig- 
zag.” The element of this pattern is 
_ simple zigzag. Other designs such 
s “step,” “leg,” and ‘‘gill,’”’ form zig- 
sot (th but these are called ‘“‘zigzag step” 
design, and are not considered as the 
real ‘‘zigzag.”’ 
70, w; one woman called 63, b, ‘‘spiral.’”’ 
The others distinguished it as ‘spiral 
zigzag short turn” (‘‘short turn” ap- 
pears to be applied where one line in the 
zigzag is shorter than the other). The 
design element is evidently a simple line 
running spirally around the basket. 
Zigzags which nearly meet are sometimes 
called by this name. 
This is shown in 66, p, q, v; 74, 6,1. Of 
these the first is considered to be the 
“true step”’ design, but 66, k, is a com- 
bination of “foot” or ‘‘gill’’ with the 
Mstepse 
67, m,n; No. 6, the upper design on 67, h, 
and the filler on 67, g. 
On the last one the eye is combined with 
“leg.” 
67, 7, l, p; 74, c, and the lower design on 
hor 
67, 7; 68,7. This name is also often ap- 
plied to common beading. 
1 Contracted so as to be smaller in the middle or at some other part. 
2 Likened to the splicing of a rope, or a kink or tangled knot in a long rope. 
8 Any horizontal mark of some length. 
