PLATE XII. 



(Mason. Basket-work.) 



Fig. ( 20. Showing regularly woven cedar-bark wallet of Bilhoolas. The bottom and 

 sides are all in checker pattern. By an endless variety in real and pro- 

 portional width of warp and weft thread, and by coloring some of the 

 threads, an infinite number of patterns is produced. The fastening oft' is 

 done as in Fig. 12. In many cedar-bark baskets of this region the two sets 

 of threads run diagonally, producing a diamond rather than a checker pat- 

 tern. Again, much more rarely three elements are iuvolved, an open-work 

 of two sets running diagonally, and a horizontal thread running through 

 the open rhombs, in and out, as in multitudes of Japanese baskets. Col- 

 lected in British Columbia, by James G. Swan. 



Fig. 21. One square inch of Fig. 20, natural size. 



