It is also quite possible that we copied the pattern of the Catawba, North Carolina, fish trap for our own minnow trap. (See [Plate 4a])
BASKETS OF UNIQUE DESIGNS AND USES
The average weaver does not use more than five or six figures in a design.
Case No. 3: Mission of California—a quail and flying duck design. (See [Plate 11b])
Case No. 3: Shoshone (Panamint), Death Valley California—Oriole design food bowl. (See [Plate 11c])
Case No. 9: Choctaw of Oklahoma—Wall Pocket. (See [Plate 16c])
Case No. 9: Niantic of Connecticut—clothes rinsing basket. (See [Plate 19d])
Case No. 10: Chitimacha of Louisiana—an alligator intestine design. (See [Plate 15c])
Case No. 11: Shoshone (Panamint), Death Valley, California—seventy figures in the design; including the American Eagle, crow in a tree, rocky mountain sheep, and lizard tracks in the sand. (See [Plate 6b])
Case No. 11: Quinault of Washington—Clam gathering basket. (See [Plate 14b])