. Bulletin. Ethnology. kucieber] HANDBOOK OF INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 147 ture of the edifices to require this more laborious material. There Avere two forms. The yi-kyiso or hang-hyiso was a conical lean-to. The yi-taslal or inin-taslcd. was wed:e-shaped, of pieces of bark leaned against a pole resting in two upright foi-ks, the front nearly A^ertical, the combined back and roof gently sloping. The north- western rectangular sweat house was not built. Dances were held in larger conical or circular structures, but these were primarily dance houses, as farther south, and not sweat houses. The Sink
. Bulletin. Ethnology. kucieber] HANDBOOK OF INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 147 ture of the edifices to require this more laborious material. There Avere two forms. The yi-kyiso or hang-hyiso was a conical lean-to. The yi-taslal or inin-taslcd. was wed:e-shaped, of pieces of bark leaned against a pole resting in two upright foi-ks, the front nearly A^ertical, the combined back and roof gently sloping. The north- western rectangular sweat house was not built. Dances were held in larger conical or circular structures, but these were primarily dance houses, as farther south, and not sweat houses. The Sinkyone used the northern redwood canoe so far as the streams in their habitat rendered the employment feasible. They declare that the Mattole. whose inland watercourses are small, did not use the canoe, even on the ocean. The southern limit of this cultural element, which, of course, is only a local form of the canoes. Fig. 14.—Siiikyonc ring-and-iiin game of salmon verteljrap. of British Columbia and Alaska, can therefore be set definiteh' at Cape Mendocino on the coast, and near the confluence of Eel River with its South Fork in the interior. BASKETS. The basketry is also of pure northern kind: wholly twined; pat- terns in overlay; and made of hazel shoots and redwood root fibers, with XerophyUwn and maidenhair fern and alder-dyed brake for the decoration. The technique is much less finished than among the Vurok, and the ornamentation simpler. Minor distinctions, such as a somewhat greater depth of flat baskets, the occurrence of four vertical dyed stripes on conical burden baskets, and some tendency toward a zigzag pattern arrangement, do not obscure the complete adhesion to the fundamental type, which in fact persists without essential modification to its southern limit among the Wailaki, OTHER MANUFACTURES. The elk-horn spoons of were used by the Sinkj'one, but not the elk-horn money boxes. Their lengths of little dentalia were rolled in mink skins. The smoking p
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