A preliminary account by S. A. Barrett of the design vocabulary in Pomo basketry from central California, based on 1904 fieldwork. It outlines the coiled and twined techniques and basket forms, then describes the 29 named design elements (animal, plant, and geometric), the qualifying terms that modify them, and how complex pattern names are built. Two plates show Pomo baskets with animal designs and arrowhead variations. Comparisons are made with design naming among the Hupa, Karok, Yurok, and Maidu.

S. A. Barrett's 1908 monograph (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 7 no. 3) on the basketry of the Pomo Indians of northern California. It covers materials (willow and hazel foundations, sedge root and other fibers, feathers, beads, shell), twining and coiling techniques, starting knots, border finishes, wickerwork, and basket forms. Most of the work analyzes ornamentation: design arrangement, elemental designs (triangles, rectangles, rhomboids, zigzags, diamonds, quail plumes) and combined patterns, with names recorded in the Northern, Central and Eastern Pomo dialects. It ends with lists of elemental and pattern names, a glossary of Pomo terms, many line figures and photographic plates of baskets.