Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . nter-pretation is unkno\vn. It is said to have been used only by thewoman who dreamed it. Realistic figm-es are seldom used by the Lillooet, and when theydo appear they are small and are enclosed by some such geometricdesign as Figure 103, s. The eagle, man, dog, deer, horse, and bowand arrow are the only objects which have been noted in representa-tions of tliis character. Personal marks are rare. Generally theyare the initials of names or copies of horse brands and thereforemodem. It is doubtf
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . nter-pretation is unkno\vn. It is said to have been used only by thewoman who dreamed it. Realistic figm-es are seldom used by the Lillooet, and when theydo appear they are small and are enclosed by some such geometricdesign as Figure 103, s. The eagle, man, dog, deer, horse, and bowand arrow are the only objects which have been noted in representa-tions of tliis character. Personal marks are rare. Generally theyare the initials of names or copies of horse brands and thereforemodem. It is doubtful whether some other kinds of marks wereused before these were adopted. The only ones seen by Mr. Teitare the letters N and L, but the Thompson use a number of initials. ** J. \. Teit, The Lillooet Indians, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, vol. 2, p. 207. The specimens fromwhich these designs were taken are enumerated in the place referred to. The same biisket is shown in Livingston Farrand, Basketry Designs of the Salish Indians, Jesup NorthPacific Espedition, Vol. 1, Part IV, pi. 23, fig. 340 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA |eth. abed
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