No sap scrapers such as were collected in the Thompson River region[76] were identified and they have not been recognized among specimens from the coast.
Basketry. The gathering of berries as well as of roots is suggested by fragments of baskets which have been found. One of these is shown in [Fig. 17]. It was found in grave No. 10 (5) in a rock-slide about a half mile above the mouth of the Naches River. It is coiled with splint foundation and bifurcated stitch. Judging from other baskets of the same kind, it was probably once imbricated. This type of basketry is widely distributed towards the north and with grass foundation is even found in Siberia.[77] Commonly the coiled basketry in the Nez Perce region to the east was made with bifurcated stitch,[78] by means of a sharpened awl which was the only instrument used in weaving it. Some were imbricated, although this style has not been made for many years, and only a few of the older natives remember women who could make them.[79] Some similar basketry of a finer technique was found with this fragment.
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[41] Smith, (d) p. 135; and (c) p. 408.
[42] Ibid.
[43] Cf. Spinden, Figs. 10-22, Plate VII.
[44] Spinden, p. 227.
[45] Spinden, p. 190.
[46] Smith, (d) p. 136; and (c) p. 409.
[47] Smith, (b) p. 437; (a) p. 190; (e) p. 564; and (f), p. 359.