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growth of ceremonial life with coincident developments in sculpture 
and weaving.! 
Basketry was another art, widely spread throughout the 
Dominion, which yet attained its highest development in British 
Columbia, not along the northern part of the coast, however, but 
in the southern part among the Nootka Indians, the Salish, and the 
Chilcotin. All these tribes employed a variety of techniques, the 
Nootka, who often used onlv the finest materials no thicker than 
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Coiled baskets of the "J'liouipson lUver Indians, (Photo hy Nfiiional Museum of 
Canada.) 
ordinary string, preferring as a rule the bird-cage ” weave, whereas 
the Salish and Chilcotin Indians specialized in coiled basketry. Both 
groups made different types of baskets, some round and some rec- 
tangular, and they wove into them figures of birds and animals as 
well as more conventional geometric designs. The handsome coiled 
baskets of the Thompson River Indians with imbricated patterns in 
black, pale yellow, and red have found a ready market in European 
1 This would c.^plaiii wliy tho men had to draw llie pattornsi for tlie women to copy in their weav- 
intr. If the style had t)t*eii old the women w'oulil have repnired lai assiistanee. 
