  We study baryon excited states for quark confinement and chiral symmetry
breaking. In the first part we discuss spatially deformed baryon excitations.
As signals of deformation, we study masses and electromagnetic transitions.
Such a study of spatial structure is expected to provide information on quark
binding mechanism and hence quark confinement. In the second part, we consider
the chiral symmetry for baryons and study positive and negative parity baryons.
We show that there are two distinctive representations of chiral symmetry for
baryons. We investigate their phenomenological consequences in terms of linear
sigma models.
