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1930] Kelly: Yuki Basketry 433

some relation to the design on the basket which is shown immediately
above on the same plate.
Interpenetrating triangles, commonly associated with vertically
arranged designs,_ are found among· the Salish, Washo, Maidu, Pomo,
Mono, Yokuts, and probably others. The design shown in figure 3c is
found among the Pomo, Maidu, Klikitat, and Walla Walla, while the
design illustrated in figure 2/ is almost identical with designs on
Maidu and Wintun baskets. The only Huchnom coiled basket in the
collection has the rather intricate design shown in figure 3d which is
strongly suggestive of that on a Pomo feathered basket. 4 The negative
design shown in plate 121e and mentioned previously is reminiscent
of two Pomo specimens figured by Mason. 5
One could cite many similar instances. One design element which
the Yuki share with other tribes is commonly called the quail tip, quail
plume, grasshopper leg, or lizard leg. A.s indicated on the accompany-
ing map (fig. 4), it is of considerable distribution, occurring widely in
Californi.a and in the Plateau region. This particular motif Boas 6
regards as a case of undoubted historical connection. The area inter-
vening between California and the northern region is blank; but few
data of any sort are known from this district. 7
One especially interesting point to be noted is that this quail plume
motif is not confined to the coiling technique, as it frequently occurs
in northwestern California, where twining is practiced to the exclusion
of coiling.
The design appears in two principal forms-that of an inverted L
(fig. 5a,-f) and that of a stem with a right-angled triangle as a foot
(fig. 5g'-i). The occurrence of these two types has been traced as far
as possible and, all told, 102 instances of the inverted L . type were
8
4 Spec. no. 1-3042.
5 Op. cit., pl. 25, large center basket, and pl. 29, lower basket.
6 Boaz, Franz, Primitive Art, 180 (Oslo, 1927).
7 The British Museum has since furnished the photograph of a twined basket
with a quail tip design, said to come from Umpqua, Yamhill county, Oregon
(Freer collection, 1900-09). The Wishram must also be added to ,the above dis-
tribution by virtue of Spier and Sapir's recently published paper (Wishram Eth-
nography, UW-PA, 3 :194, :fig. 4, pl. 4, 1930).
s These data are based primarily on specimens in the University of Cali-
fornia Museum of Anthropology, the Oakland Public Museum, and upon illus-
trations in Mason, op. cit.,· Haeberlin, Teit, and Roberts, Coiled Basketry in
British Columbia and Surrounding Region, BAE-R, 41, 1928; and Dixon, R. B.,
Basketry Designs of the Indians of Northern California, AMNH-B, 17 :1-32-,
1902. More or less isolated cases were taken: from Spinden, H. J., The Nez
Perce Indians, AMNH-M, 2: pl. 6, 1908; James, G. W., The Basket, nos. 1,
2, 3, 1903; Rogers, D. B., Prehistoric Man of the Santa Barbara Coast (1929);
and Farrand L., Basketry Designs of the Salish Indians, AMNH-MJ, 2: pl. 23,
1900.