Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ures and to the zigzag composed of vertical and horizon-tal sections. They are designated as zigzags or steps, and are alsogiven the fanciful appellations of mountains, clouds, necklaces, andstepped half circles on accoimt of their shape. Probably because of 316 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [ETH. ANN. 41 tlieir derivation they are also called embroidery designs. Sketches201 to 205 are elaborations of this form. Sketch 206 shows the motifused as a closed imit. This figure is called star, f
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ures and to the zigzag composed of vertical and horizon-tal sections. They are designated as zigzags or steps, and are alsogiven the fanciful appellations of mountains, clouds, necklaces, andstepped half circles on accoimt of their shape. Probably because of 316 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA [ETH. ANN. 41 tlieir derivation they are also called embroidery designs. Sketches201 to 205 are elaborations of this form. Sketch 206 shows the motifused as a closed imit. This figure is called star, frequently with theadded descriptive phrases notched, stepped, or gnawed allaround. Elaborations of this occur in sketches 207 and 208. Twofigures wluch do not properly belong to any of these groups, nor toladder and step designs, and wliich are placed here as a matter ofconvenience, are shown in sketches 209 and 210. They are usuallycalled cloud designs, on account of their general shape; sometimesalso mountain. Sketch 209 has been named necklace, and aU areconsidered as embroidery patterns. U^. 210 212 Crosses 214 Crossed lines may be purely geometric or they may have a realisticsignificance, if, as is sometimes the case, they are copies of the Chris-tian cross. They are then quite frankly named Clii-istian cross;therefore, although constructed on the same principle as geometriccrosses, they have been placed with the realistic designs. The purely geometric crosses have very few interpretations. Theyare always known as stars when simple in construction and small,and the arms are usually of equal length. The two plain littlecrosses shown in sketches 211 and 212 are also given the name offlying bird or insect, and rarely they are called flies. Thatshown in sketch 214 is given a secondary interpretation of fish-linereel, since it resembles the object fairly closely. The elaboratedforms of sketches 215 to 217 are more often particularly designated BOAS) GEOMETRIC FORMS 317 as big o
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