434 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (ETH. ANN. 41 
No. 4. Trekwi'tlixqen ( Head), a daughter of No. 5, was raised 
around Spences Bridge. Her parents were Spences Bridge and 
Nicola. She was aged about 36 and began basket making five or 
more years previous to the time when she was questioned. She 
picked up the art, as many women do, by watching others of the 
Upper Thompson tribes. She made two or three baskets every year 
and had finished a number of burden, oblong, and circular shapes. 
Her designs, shown in Figure 122, were “‘arrowhead”’ (13), “‘cloud”’ 
(14), ‘‘cloud embroidery”? (15), variety of a copied design, name 
unknown to her (16), ‘‘bead” variety, invented by herself (17), 
variety of “arrowhead,” invented by herself (18). 
Plates: The right-hand stripe, 7, c, which is called ‘‘marks of a 
young fawn’s skin’’; the central stripe of 15, 6; the rim design of 
32, c; the central stripe of 3, b; 28, g (called caterpillar); 23, c, the 
checkerwork at the rim; 38, d; 49, f. 
She also made Figure 122, Nos. 19, 20, 21, which she said were all 
variations of form and arrangement of designs seen by her on other 
women’s baskets. She did not know their proper names. 
No. 5. Sinsi’n.tko (Staggering Water) was raised at Potato Gardens, 
among the Nicola, but she belonged to the Spences Bridge Band. 
Her parents were Nicola and Lytton. She was nearly 60 years of 
age, the mother of No. 4, and began basket making only four years 
before this information was gathered. She acquired sufficient knowl- 
edge of the art by watching others but had not worked at it very 
steadily, as she did not have much time for it. She had not cared 
about it when she was young. Her baskets were about five in number 
and were oblong and circular shapes. She had made only a very 
few designs, not more than six, the principal of which were one or 
two forms of arrowheads. Her first basket was decorated only with 
beading. 
No. 6. Ts6’s.tko (Rattling Water) belonged also to the Spences 
Bridge Band. Her mother was part Thompson, part Uta/mqt. 
No. 2 was her half sister by the same father. She had grown up at 
Spences Bridge and at the time of the investigation was 45 years 
old. She had made baskets for a number of years but as she worked 
only occasionally had not many to her credit. At first she had no 
special instruction but had gathered what she knew about the art 
from observing other women. Some years she made one or two 
and at other times for a period of a year or more she did nothing. 
All of her baskets were comparatively small and circular. Her 
designs were: 
Sketches: 4, 7, 30, 51, 60, 80, 86, 128, 157, 180, 222, 225, 245, 303, 
361, 369, 374, 393, 412, 426, 441, 480, 497, 504, 527, 547, 697, anda 
very few others. 
