442 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA , (ETH. ANN. 41 
No. 14. Kaukuwa’tko (Sage-Brush-Water) had grown up among 
the Nicola at Potato Gardens and belonged to that band. She was 
about 55, and ever since she was a young girl she had made baskets at 
the rate of two or three every year. On the whole her baskets were 
of medium size, although she sometimes produced large pieces or 
some of the small bowl varieties. 
Kaukuwa’tko made no zigzag or net patterns because she con- 
sidered it very difficult to space them properly and to make all the 
parts of equal size. Even when they were satisfactory, to her mind 
they did not create any better effect than other patterns, and when 
badly made they were considerably worse. The patterns she did 
make are to be seen in Sketches 66, 157, in two or three arrangements, 
176 single, 215, 218, 244, 254, 284, 288, 289, 303, 311, 330, 391, 427, 
440, 444, 584, 616, 804, and a few others. 
Plates: 12, c; 23, d; 24, h; 25, a; 25, b; 25, c; 28, e; 34, a; 37, a; 
37, c; 38, d; 41, d; 43, c; 49, b; also A. M. N. H. 16/1044; 16/4620. 
According to Kaukuwa’tko sketch No. 330 is a dentalia design. 
Those seen in Plate 37, a—c, are old designs in bead embroidery. All 
of these Kaukuwa’tko had made arranged in long lines, as well as the 
same combinations that appear on the baskets in Plates 38, d, and 
49, f, which were very common. She did not know why the com- 
bination of these particular elements was so customary but thought 
that it was due to habit and because the women thought them 
attractive. The ‘mula”’ design was pointed out in Plate 25, c, the 
“small star’ in 47, d, a flower in Plate 28, e, and the “foot” design 
in Plate 12, c. 
No. 15. Mary and her parents belonged to the Stlaxai’ux division. 
She was 45 years old and had spent her life in the Stlaxai’ux locality. 
She had been taught basketwork at a very early age by the older 
women of her family, including grandmother, mother, and mother’s 
sisters, and had specialized in medium sizes of all shapes, but par- 
ticularly in burden and circular baskets. Of the last sho had also 
made some smaller specimens. She was still completing from one to 
three every year. Her artistic tastes are represented by Sketches 68 
257, 288, 292, 434, 504. 
Plates: 7, c; 9, b; 11, a; 12, a; 12, 6; 14, e; 16, a; 18, b; 24, e; 24, g; 
- 24, h; 27, g; 33, ¢; 34, a; 37, a; 37, b; 37, ¢; 37, e; 38, c; 39, a; 39, b; 
43, d; 46, a; 56, d; 56, e; 58, a; fig. 122, 26; also A. M. N. H. 
16/1269; 16/1271; 16/4581; 16/4640; 16/5915; 16/9236; 16/9630. 
According to Mary’s account many old Stlaxai’ux designs were 
very similar to or even identical with Lytton patterns. Those of 
the Upper Lillooet resembled more the designs used by the Lower 
Lillooet than those in vogue among the Stlaxai’ux and Lytton, but 
they all were very much alike. The dissimilarity between the art 
of the Lower Lillooet and the Lytton was least marked. Each 
