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Their specialized culture is found in its most highly developed form among the tribes of the lower Klamath and Trinity rivers : K . the Yurok , arok , and Hupa The Hupa belong to one of the California groups of the great Athabascan linguistic stock . The Yurok and Karok are small isolated lingui stic stocks . The three languages are as radically diff erent in phonetics as they are totally unrelated in vocabulary . The three tribes live in close c l i ontact , with more or less intercourse and general y fr endly c l k . relations . In their ulture they are remarkably a i e The names of the basket designs described in this paper were 1 900 1 901 a n d obtained from Indians of the three tribes during , , n n n n 1 902. The most exte sive i vestigatio s were made amo g the s n Yurok . This accoun ts for the larger number of de ig s obtained n among this tribe . The Yurok designs described are take from o nearly a hun dred baskets . The maj rity of these are now in the Museum of the Anthropological Departme n t of the Un i versity n of California . A number of baskets , and the ames of their c i n 1 900 o f designs , were colle ted for the California Academy es ffi a Sciences . Through the court y of the o cers of the Ac demy n was this material is used in the present paper . Informatio 2 9 . A 1 1 . A 8 0 8 . E r a . ’ H R i li r n i P bh i n A A C H . E TH. 1 06 Un i v ers ty of Ca fo a u ca t o s . [ obtained among the Yurok as to the designs of a greater number of baskets than were actually collected , the total number reach i n g several hundred . The more common design names are exceedingly frequent among the northwestern tribes , and , while s n exact duplication of designs ordi arily do not occur, yet many of the variation s are so slight that it was often thought un n ec es sary to insure their preservation by purchase of the specimen . All baskets havin g characteristic designs but uncommon design s names were secured for the Mu eum of the Department . This selection gives the Yurok design names described an appearance of somewhat greater variety than they actually possess . Prob ably the fif teen most common design names constitute all but a very few per cent of the total number . Am ong the Karok and Hupa all baskets were secured about which information was obtained as to the design . The number of such Karok baskets -fi v e . is about fifty, and of Hupa twenty It was found necessary to get the names of the designs in s the native language , as many of the word are not names of ani ls m ma or objects , but geometrical or descriptive ter s not trans l l 1 at ab e by the Indians .