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unusual and diverse. The others include a large number of zigzags, 
“‘net,”’ “Indian rice root,’’ and other ordinary checker patterns, two 
“stars,” and the “‘ladder”’ designs 144 and 361, both of which are rare. 
Informants Nos. 4 and 5, Spences Bridge, were a young woman and 
her mother. The latter made very few baskets. The daughter’s 
designs corresponding to the sketches were not obtained. 
No. 6, Spences Bridge, also made zigzag, checker, and arrowhead 
patterns which were used by the three preceding women, and at 
Lytton, Spuzzum,and Nicola. She apparently invented those shown 
in Sketches 7, 16, 30, and 527; at least they were not made by any of 
the women who saw the sketches. There are no designs common to 
all of the Spences Bridge women, but each woman made several 
which were also applied to the work of other women in the settlement. 
Since Nos. 8 and 11, both of Spences Bridge, were practically blind, 
they could not identify their designs, so no study of their work was 
possible. All available information about them has been given above. 
No. 7 was a Lytton woman whose work was evidently of the simplest 
_ order. Her designs were composed of single oblique lines, hooks, or 
crooks, the Y figure (592) known as part of a grave box, which none 
of the other women made, the plain single triangle and a bead design 
of three checks in different colors. She could not see the sketches 
well, so only a few of her patterns were noted, but none of them are 
at all pretentious. 
No. 9 at Lytton saw only the photographs. From those she recog- 
nized as designs she had made, it is clear that she was fond of chevrons 
and eight-pointed stars. Many that she identified were on trays, 
and inasmuch as they are there in radial arrangement and might 
appear quite different when applied to burden baskets, it is possible 
that she constructed a number of these forms. Several patterns, 
including white squares outlined in black, were among those recognized 
by her. She was much more progressive than No. 7, for her patterns 
were numerous, varied, and complicated, partly due to the fact that 
she seldom duplicated a design, preferring to try variations. 
Nos. 17, 18, and 19 also belonged to Lytton and for the purpose of 
convenient comparison will be discussed here. 
No. 17 found forty-six different designs among the sketches which 
she had tried. Ten were not claimed by any of the other informants 
whosaw them. They are quite varied. One is realistic, a deer (791); 
two are zigzag in horizontal arrangement (83, 85); one is a mouth 
design in vertical series (191); there is a vertical string of beads 
(484); a vertical series of arrowheads, points down, framed in a stripe 
(249); some triangles so arranged horizontally on either side of a line 
that no two are opposite each other, while the points of adjoining 
rows dovetail (266). She also made the pattern shown in Sketch 
206, a notched star, and some figures composed of isolated squares 
