The gifts brought by the women in round baskets included bags of _Tobah_ (already discussed), broiled fish, the seed and down of some plant (milkweed?),[85] and a root called _Petah_ or _Patah_. Neither the Pomo nor the Coast Miwok remember today any root or bulb with a name resembling _Petah_ or _Patah_. Elmendorf and I have agreed with Kroeber that _Petah_ is probably to be linked with the word "potato" in one or another of its various forms. Kroeber thinks that the description indicates the wild onion (_Brodiaea_), called _putcu_ in Coast Miwok, and this is not improbable. However, soaproot (_Chlorogalum_), which was sometimes baked into a bread, would also fill the description. It is called _haka_ by the Coast Miwok, and it is barely possible, though hardly probable, that _haka_ could have been heard and recorded as _Patah_ or _Petah_. Since Fletcher speaks of _Petah_ as a root, it seems improbable that he was describing acorns (called _ümba_ in Coast Miwok); yet even this remote possibility may be entertained, since Madox recorded _cheepe_ as bread, and Coast Miwok _tcipa_ means acorn bread. The word _Petah_, and botanical identification, must remain in limbo until further data are at hand. The feather-decorated baskets offer evidence, as Barrett and Kroeber have indicated, that Drake landed on the coast immediately north of San Francisco Bay. The baskets (pl. 19) are described as shaped like a deep bowl, covered with a matted down of red feathers worked into various patterns, and further embellished with pendant drops of pearl shell (_Haliotis_) and two or three disk beads in various places. Such baskets were made only by the Coast Miwok,[86] Pomo,[87] Lake Miwok, and Wappo. Kroeber states that these baskets "served as gifts and treasures; and above all they were destroyed in honor of the dead."[88] It is clear that, in 1579, feathered baskets similar in manufacture and use to the native baskets of today were known in this Coast Miwok area. The scepter bearer, prompted in a low voice by another man, delivered a long oration. The Coast Miwok have such orators; among those Indians the office of speechmaker is a special one.[89] The Pomo have orators,[90] as do most other central Californians. The _Amen_, or sign of general approbation, following the oration has already been commented upon. Then the natives performed a dance to the accompaniment of a song led by the scepter bearer (or orator)[91] and joined in by the men, while the women danced but remained silent. Among the Pomo and Coast Miwok each ceremony has a song in connection with its observance.[92]