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Plate XXXIX 
British Columbia Interior 
Painting on Boulder 
Painting on boulder. As explained by the Indians, Figures 1 and 2 represent crossing of 
trails; 3 and 4, fir-branches; 5, girl’s lodge, and fir-branches hanging down from roof; 
6, 7, and 8, crossings of trails; 9 and 10, fir-branches; 11, roof of girl’s lodge with fir- 
branches hanging down; 12, snake j 13, sacrifices put up at crossing of trails; 14, unfin- 
ished basketry; 15, crossing of trails; 16, two trenches; 17, fir-branch; 18, unfinished 
basketry; 19, dog; 20 and 21, fir-branches; 22, dog; 23, unfinished basketry; 24, fir- 
branch; 26, crossing of trails and fir-branch put up as a sacrifice; 26, unfinished 
basketry; 27 and 28, fir-branches. Near Spence Bridge, B.C. Thompson, Salish 
Indian area. Redrawn from page 229, Teit, Rock, 1896, reproduced as key to 
Figure 1, Plate XIX, Teit, Thompson, 1900. Most of this illustrated in Figure 1, 
Plate XIX, Teit, Thompson, 1900, from photograph, Cat. No. (466) in American 
Museum of Natural History, New York. Nearly as much but farther from the left 
illustrated in negative, Cat. No. (467) . A little of the right end illustrated in negative, 
Cat. No. (478). 
This type of art is characteristic of the plateaus of the British Columbia interior and is not 
found on the British Columbia coast. Compare with similar paintings illustrated in 
Plate XXXVIII and Plate XL in this publication and in Figure 2, Plate XIX, and 
Plate XX, Teit, Thompson, 1900. 
