392 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [erH. ANN. 41 
TECHNICAL DEscRIPTIVE TeRMs—Continued 
English 
Salish 
Remarks 
Openwork rim of two loop 
coils 
Openwork rim of coils,! the 
loops of which meet each 
other at the bends 
Lid in one piece with the 
side of the basket 
Loopwork lid 
-sShahrtltci’/n trek 
-nsia/iuk 
-Shahrtlitei’n trek 
.n)kitea’uspment- 
wa’ux" 
snmémeptsqai’n 
Nee nies 
-Shahertlqai’.n 
From kite, to reach, re- 
flexive 
From mémats, in one 
piece, or a whole 
From  .shahitl, pinked, 
gnawed 
Slat lid -sxai.tsqa’/in 
Toous 
Awl .s00/ Et Common term for any 
kind of awl 
hap.mi’n literally “piercing instru- 
ment,’ term sometimes 
used 
PROCESSES 
To wrap the end of a splint | yii’ kem Common word for wrap- 
(as in a bottom) ping around and around 
.syii/k, wrapped around 
and around 
To make coils of the outside | .npipa’/ekrnrma 
parts of cedar roots 
To make a hole with the awl, 
to make a stitch 
To tap the stitch home with 
the awl 
To fureate in the ordinary 
menner 
To bifurcate 
To coil 
To complete a coil 
The process of twining or 
wrapping, binding the coils | 
together as when com- 
mencing a bottom 
To do wrapping 
A round of coil 
One round of coil 
Ring coil 
To make a bottom 
hapi’m, h»pi’m 
sEka’/istrem 
| axpi’kenema 
hapi’kenrma 
za/nEM 
-swetlkai‘i 
wetlkai’.em 
zEl.pi’ist 
pai’as zEl.pa’ists 
-spazantwa’ux" 
wskist tek .szanrm 
kesi’p tek .szankm 
keste’s .sza’nEms 
-ntciwa’/prEm 
1 There are also other names for this form. 
za’nem tla’k zEl.paist) 
To strike surface 
Related to hapim (see 
p. 390) 
To go around in a circle 
Go around-continue-circle 
Literally to pry 
Literally meet each other 
Literally faint or con- 
cealed, invisible (junc- 
tion of coil ends) 
Faint or invisible coil 
She makes ring coil; liter- 
ally she conceals it, her 
coil 
teti’/um to make, .stet’u, 
made 
