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are particularly fond of fly or checker patterns. Neither employs 
the square to any great extent outside of these designs. On the 
other hand, Chilcotin art is conspicuous for the squares and tri- 
angles which compose the simple but effective patterns. Klickitat 
work is the most florid and rich of any. The horizontal zigzag with 
its variety of depending smaller designs is particularly well adapted 
to the round shape of the basket. The art style is here more uniform 
than with the other tribes and probably on that account far less 
interesting, but at least one does not encounter such glaring defects 
as on the elongated shapes from the other regions, which are due, 
not so much to carelessness on the part of the artist as to the great 
number of problems and difficulties which arise to confront her on 
account of the irreconcilable features of technique, shape, and style 
of designs. 
Before discussing the other sources from which the Thompson may 
have obtained ideas for their highly diversified decorations, it seems 
expedient to consider the relationships in art and technique which 
exist between the tribes which surround them and their more distant 
neighbors. 
The various centers where imbrication and decorative art through 
its means have attained a high degree of development, although 
similar culturally, are represented by three linguistic families, and 
historically different settings. The Thompson and Lillooet are 
Salishan; the Klickitat, Shahaptian; and the Chilcotin, Athapascan. 
The Lillooet, living west of the Thompson, are a little nearer the 
sea. They have been in contact more or less with the coast Salish 
and probably from them copied in basketry the rectangular boxes 
which the coast tribes made of wood. In the matters of the general 
shape of the baskets, the two-field division of the wall, the droppers, 
and the lavish use of beading, as well as the peculiar trait of orna- 
menting three sides and leaving a fourth bare, the Lillooet differ from 
the Thompson and in some respects show affiliation with the coast 
tribes. Their large rectangular designs, however, are no longer unique 
with them, since the Thompson have taken them over to a consider- 
able extent. Those composed of two complementary sections divided 
by a narrow vertical stripe resemble nothing so much as painted de- 
signs of the western plains. The droppers used in the decoration of 
Tlingit baskets,”! while not duplicated exactly by the Lillooet on their 
burden shapes, are sufficiently like them to be worthy of note, 
especially since only these two tribes have apparently adopted the 
idea. One design which the Lillooet share with the Tlingit is that 
given in Figure 105, Sketch 18. (Cf. Thompson design in Fig. 115, 
Sketch 165.) 
1@G.T.Emmons. Basketry of the Tlingit. Memoirs Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. III, pt. 2, New York, 
1903. 
