Sas) APPENDIX 439 
According to this informant, the designs on the basket in Plate 
31, b, is an embroidery pattern, or, more properly, an imitation of 
beadwork used on women’s dresses. So are those shown in Plates 
24, b; 37, a; 438, c, d. That shown in 37, a, is a copy of a design 
used both in front and behind on the upper parts of the dress. 
Tciaxa’tko considered this a very old design, for which she had no 
name except ‘‘embroidery design.’’ Zigzag beaded lines inclosed the 
figures before and behind and passed over or around the shoulders, 
thus connecting the embroidery so that it formed a continuous 
pattern. Those on Plates 23, c, and 57, ¢, are also necklace designs, 
but represent actual strings of beads or dentalia. The design of 
Plate 16, a, is called “leg” or ‘foot.’ That in Plate 22, d, is a fish 
or deer net design. She said the latter was the common old name 
among the Upper Thompson and was the term used by her mother. 
She called the end design which may be discerned in Plate 33, b, 
“‘arrowhead.”’ From her mother she had learned that the patterns 
seen in Plates 28, 6, d, and 55, g, were “‘zigzags’’ or “deer fences,”’ 
which with many similar patterns were thought to be pictures of 
fences in which snares were set for catching deer. The ‘‘mula”’ or 
‘rice root” design she pointed out ‘in Plate 25, b, the “pouch” with 
notched mouth in Plate 9, c. There were, she remarked, ‘many 
paint pouches cut in this fashion. The design on the basket 
Plate 28, c, she called ‘‘net,”’ though the elements are ‘‘leg’’ elements, 
which intersect at intervals. A star design executed all in white 
would be called by her, snow. Plate 28, e, shows a “flower” or 
“buttercup”? pattern which may possibly also be interpreted as 
“larkspur.”’ Plate 47, d, illustrates rain or snow. The design was 
generally arranged spirally. The ‘‘arrow”’ design which may be seen 
in Plate 37, a, 6, when made in red and black only, she said was sup- 
posed to be an imitation of beads and received its name correspond- 
ingly, but if white were substituted for either of these colors the 
design was known as dentalia. A figure somewhat similar to that 
depicted in Sketch 681 or Teit, ‘‘The Thompson Indians,’ Figure 
313,? was formerly popular and had been made by her mother. It 
was known as a legging design and illustrated that type of legging the 
fringes of which were strung with beads. Another design her mother 
had made and called the “throwing stick and ring of the kolko’laxrm 
game.” (Fig. 122,24.) Her mother and grandmother made a num- 
ber of designs which are now obsolete, the names of most of which 
were afterwards forgotten. In response to questions Tciaxa’tko said 
that she did not use ‘“‘fly”’ designs and only a few “ arrowhead”’ pat- 
terns. They were easy enough to make, but she had never adopted 
them, nor had she made the common ‘‘dentalia’’ pattern, as illus- 
trated in Plate 12, b. 
2 Loc. cit. 
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