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3. Carrying parts are the stout hoop on the body a few inches 

 from the top, answering to a hoop on the inside, for backing, and all 

 held to the body technic by a series of knots. On the two uprights 

 that limit the back of the body are knotted loops, or grommets, for 

 the carrying band of soft bark cloth. 



-1. Borderwork will always be a chief point of interest. In this 

 example it consists of two half hoops of rattan fitted against the 

 upper rim of the body, a thin piece of rattan laid over the joint, and 

 all neatly bound with two sets of knots close together, their connect- 

 ing splits prettily interwoven. In other examples three or more sets 

 of knots produce broad bands of ornamental work by their inter- 

 weaving. 



Pig. 1. 



-CLOSE, OBLIQUE CHECKERWORK WITH INWOVEN BORDER, SHOWING FINISHED BASKET 

 AND DETAIL OP BORDER. 



Borderwork. — If the upper margin of the body technic in a basket 

 be called "rim," borderwork will apply to that great variety of treat- 

 ment bestowed by Malaysian basket-makers upon the margin, or 

 rim. Some of the American Indian women were not far behind them. a 

 It is the part receiving the most scrupulous care on account of strain 

 and stress, but it offered to decorative motives their best oppor- 

 tunities. Here will be found braidwork, coiledwork, hoopwork, 

 knot work, and twinedwork. All at once the basket-maker is thinking 

 how best to fasten off body technic at the rim; what technic shall 

 the distinctive borderwork receive. Here terminates also the frame- 

 work, here rests the cover, and how shall they all be harmonized. 

 Practically, borders are checker, double-hoop, two-hoop, thin hoop, 

 sloping shoulder, wrapped, moused, interlocking helical, and inwoven. 



'•' Sec Emmons, Mem. Ann']'. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York, 1903, III, Pt. 2. 



