L41B. Resin basket. 43.48.
Thebasket in which the cannibal puts people is smeared or filled with resin. See L41, L42 motives.
The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [L42]; twana [L41]; clallam [L41]; Puget Sound: Ballard 1929:103-104 [snail woman collects children in a basket, roasts them at home; a humpback boy along the way runs away, grabbing a branch; other children push the cannibal into the fire; children turn into small birds], 104-105 [The snail woman's basket is smeared with resin from the inside; then becomes a snail shell; the Snail puts a hunchback in the basket, mistaking him for a child; he pushes it into the fire; it explodes, pieces of body turn into jellyfish]; lummi [L41, L42]; upper chehalis: Adamson 1934, No. 77 [giantess- the cannibal grabs XWαnä'xwαne and the Crane, when they were swimming, takes them away in her resin basket; at home, washes them from tar, fattens them, tells them to bring skewers to fry them alive; Crane makes all the sticks crooked; after the fifth time, the cannibal agrees that S. and the Crane show their shamanic art, they put her to sleep, cover the house with resin, burn her; S. orders that from now on no one disturbed the bathers], 78 [after bathing and picking berries, the Crane and three others fell asleep; Xwán wakes them up four times, screaming as if a cannibal was coming; then he fell asleep, and the cannibal carried them away in a resin basket; Three paths grab the branches and run away, and the cannibal brought S. and the Crane home, began to fatten them; they pretended to be sick, they were allowed to shamanize, they put the cannibal and her sisters to sleep, burned them together with the house ; Sh. and Crane: Let no one else bother people resting after picking berries]: 143-144, 145-146; quileout [L42].
California. L41. Chukchansi yokuts; chumash; kitanemuk; salinan: Mason 1918:83 [man throws people he meets into his basket; Falcon and Raven threw him himself, burned him; where hot resin dripped, mezcal has grown], 109 [Chahe has a basket of boiling resin on her shoulder, this is her stomach; she throws people at her; Falcon and Raven meet her, she throws Raven (since then black) into the basket, his Falcon pulled it out, revived it; they set fire to that woman; she ran north; where the burning resin was dripping, mezcal grew].