Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ent of the largefigures to the upper field, and also the miscalculations in placingthe droppers. Doctor Haeberlin has made sketches of one of thesebaskets in wliich the upper field is merely beadwork on three of thefaces, while on the fourth the droppers run to the rim of the basket.(See fig. 101 and note how the woman has begim her beading in theupper corner of the first side as pictured in sketch c, in order to fillthe gap left by crowding the droppers too far to one side.) It will be seen tha
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ent of the largefigures to the upper field, and also the miscalculations in placingthe droppers. Doctor Haeberlin has made sketches of one of thesebaskets in wliich the upper field is merely beadwork on three of thefaces, while on the fourth the droppers run to the rim of the basket.(See fig. 101 and note how the woman has begim her beading in theupper corner of the first side as pictured in sketch c, in order to fillthe gap left by crowding the droppers too far to one side.) It will be seen that the Lillooet women have not succeeded evenas well as most of the Thompson in solving the difficxilty of theleftward leaning vertical. Thej- are more successful in horizontaldiagonals and fljnng bird designs or in meanders. (Pis. 55, /; 56, c;and 57, c.) An interesting example of a Lillooet womans struggles with theplacing of vertical stripes is shown in Plate 43, c, d. As was the casein one or two Thompson specimens, some of the stripes were widenedto fill the gap occasioned by WTong Fig. 100.—Lillooet basket 338 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
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