it had any connection with the bowl, this is not now discernible.[346] The specimen shown in Fig. 59 and considered as a mat presser reminds one of an unfinished pipe. [346] Museum negative no. 44509, 6-9, 6-10, 6-11. ART. The graphic and plastic art of the early people of this region is illustrated by pictographic line paintings in red and white on the basaltic columns of the cliffs;[347] petroglyphs of the same general style pecked into similar cliffs; incised designs on stone, bone, antler and dentalium shells, and carvings both incised and pecked in stone. Some of the objects found are colored by red ochre or have it rubbed into the lines of their incised designs. Examples of graphic art seem to be more common than those of plastic art. [347] A few of which were figured and described in Smith, (g), pp. 195-203, and abstracted in The Scientific American Supplement, pp. 23876-8, Vol. LVIII, No. 1490, July 23, 1904, and in Records of the Past, pp. 119-127, Vol. IV, Part IV, April, 1905. The paintings and pecked designs on cliffs are more or less geometric although pictographic in character. The incised designs are still more geometric and include the circle and dot commonly found in the Thompson River region.[348] This design is also common on modern objects from the coast of British Columbia and Washington, but was not there present among archaeological finds. Lewis[349] states that according to the early writers, in the general area of which this is a part, porcupine quills were much used for decorating articles of clothing and that later, beads were used for this purpose. The modern designs are largely floral. Among the Nez Perce, floral and plant designs in beadwork are particularly common although some geometric designs occur, as on belts, the decoration of which is largely geometric, as squares, triangles and similar figures.[350] Lewis[351] believes that the designs of the general region were originally geometric and that some of the modern geometric designs are survivals, while others suggest eastern influence. He further states that floral designs are found among the Salish tribes but to a much less extent. We found no floral designs among the archaeological specimens in the Yakima area. Some of the incised work, on certain of the carvings is of good technique, and artistic execution. This is noticeable in the object made of antler, carved on one surface to represent a human figure in costume, shown in Fig. 121 and on the dish shown in Fig. 116. Inlaying with white metal was practised in comparatively modern times. Animal heads are represented by the specialization of knobs on pestles, an animal form by a mortar and human forms by some of the pictographs, and petroglyphs, the incised antler figure and several of the pipes. [348] Smith, (c), Figs. 360b and 378; (d), Figs. 109, 110 and 111. [349] Lewis, p. 191. [350] Spinden, p. 236. [351] Lewis, p. 191.