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of the subject we are not justified in formulating a dogmatic state- 
ment. Certainly a “dropper” form of decoration is sufficiently 
unusual and independent of the necessities of construction of the 
design as well as striking to the eye to account for its direct trans- 
ference to basketry designs without the medium of skin fringes as 
applied to baskets. 
A still more plausible explanation was offered by one of the inform- 
ants who had received thorough instruction from her mother and 
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grandmother. She took an intelligent interest in the art for its own 
sake, engendered, no doubt, by the common interest of a family of: 
craftswomen. All this lends to her opinions more than usual weight. 
She always called the droppers on Lillooet baskets tsrné’ka (or hair- 
flap ornament), and explained her use of this term as follows: She 
had heard that the droppers were representations of the embroidered 
flaps of skin which were fastened to the braids of hair on either side 
of the head on a level with or just below the ears. These flaps were 
often provided with pendants. 
