440 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA __[eru. ann. 41 
No. 18, a sister of No. 12, was named Trla’tko (Extending-in-a-Line- 
Water) and also was a member of the Gladwin Band. She was about 
58 years old. She, too, began when a small girl to work in basketry, 
being taught, as was her sister, by her mother and grandmother. 
She had made a great number, and almost all the varieties of shapes, 
and still completed from:two to six every year. Repeated use of 
the same patterns without alteration did not disturb her, although 
like her sister she sometimes changed them in small details, or 
their arrangement in the field. The same may be said of her in 
regard to previous planning of designs for a basket as was said of 
Tciaxa’tko, but when she could not determine on a design she some- 
times began her basket and built it up to the place where the design 
was to be started before making up her mind. Only rarely has she 
altered a pattern in the course of its execution, and then only in 
minute particulars. The designs she used are to be seen in Sketches 
198, 435, 495. 
Plates: The Frontispiece; 9, a; 12, 6; 12, c; 21, a; 21, b; 22, c; 23, ¢; 
24, c; 25, a; 25, b; 28, b; 28, d; 33, b; 33, d; 37, a; 37, c; 40, b; 40, ¢; 
50, b; 55, b; 55, g; 57, f; and A. M. N. H. 16/5889; 16/8740; 16/9236; 
and designs as in Plate 24, ¢, but’ not the same combination. 
Trla’tko agreed with the information given by her sister. In addi- 
tion she interpreted the following patterns. For that on the basket 
in the frontispiece she said there had formerly been no name but 
that the Uta’mqt later called it ‘butterfly wing.” The designs of 
Plate 21, c, and the baskets in Plates 12, b, and 39, b, she called 
“Jadder’’; those seen in Plate 23, a, were ‘‘snares.”’ 
The arrowhead she discovered in Plate 7, c, the ‘‘foot”’ in 12, ¢, 
the ‘“‘star’’ in 14, d, ‘‘snake”’ in 18, 6, the ‘deer fence”’ and “snares” 
or ‘“‘zigzag”’ in Sketch 495, Plates 19, 6, and 28, 6, d, but properly 
the points of these designs should be flattened. She had used a 
pattern which she called “snail,” since it resembled the horns of that 
creature, and gave this name to the lower figures on the basket shown 
in Plate 21, c. It resembled “leg” (fig. 122, 48) and “‘legs”’ (fig. 
122, 49), patterns which she had also made, the latter of which was 
named “leggings”? by some people. Plate 25, a, showed a “‘cross”’ 
copied from that used by the Catholics; 35, a, circling or snake; that 
on the end of the basket in Plate 33, b, a copy of a pattern known as 
kekaxii’ist, which was formerly painted on buckskin robes; 33, d, 
small sacks used by women as paint pouches; 33, c, all “embroidery” 
patterns; as well as those in Plates 37, a, b, and 57, a, which were 
used on women’s dresses. The arrow point, she said, was represented 
in the triangles in 38, d, while the diamonds on the same basket she 
designated as “‘notches,”’ declaring that such a name was often given 
this arrangement because of the contracted effect occurring at regular 
intervals. If the diamonds were separated, the name would not be 
applicable, but terms like “arrowhead,” “leaf,” ‘‘eye,” etc., would 
