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fringes. Belts for men and women are woven alike, except that a 

 woman's is decidedly broader and shorter than a man's. 



Designs used in weaving are usually conventional; they have no 

 significance. Kapam and shawls have no designs. Belts and head- 

 bands often have varicolored stripes running lengthwise, or stripes 

 of one color running crosswise near the ends. Ponchos are usually of 

 one color, either gray, purplish gray, or silver-gray; an occasional 

 one has woven in it a geometric design of some subdued color, usually 

 black or brown (pi. 25, i and 2). Blankets are generally of undyed 

 white yarn with stripes of one color running lengthwise near the 

 edges. Lama are of one color, usually gray or brown, with stripes 

 of a bright color in the woof, close to both ends. 



BASKETRY 



Cooper (1946, p. 713) lists several kinds of basketry made of plant 

 fibers : the chaiwe, made of voqui and used as a filter for chicha or 

 as a sieve or colander; the llepii, a flat, round platter form made of 

 colihiie ; and the kiilko, a large basket, made of copihue. He also gives 

 the I0130 and the yole as basketry containers — the loi]o, of very fine 

 weave, made of colihue; the yole, of bejucos. 



Basketry used by my informants were the wilal (a carrying bag), 

 the kiilko (a carrying and storage basket), the chaiwe (a sieve, 

 drainage, filtering, and storage basket), and the llepii (a winnow- 

 ing tray) . 



Wilal (pis. 12, 2; 58, i) are netted from cord made of fiocha, a 

 grass found in damp places. (See p. loi for cord making.) Both 

 adults and children make them. They vary in size from small ones, 

 convenient for the use of small children, to large ones used in trans- 

 porting fish to market. An in-between size is used for storage, being 

 hung on fire racks or on pegs on ruka walls. In shape a wilal is either 

 spherical or oblong. The opening ends either in a braid of three 

 strands of iiocha through which a cord of fiocha is passed, or in loops 

 of iiocha cord which are attached at intervals and through which a 

 cord is inserted as a drawstring. A wilal may have two short handles 

 for carrying purposes or two long adjustable straps. Straps permit 

 carrying by hand or suspension from the shoulder or the head. 

 Handles and straps are braided hocha. 



For the making of a wilal, a 13-year-old boy had gathered iiocha 

 and laid it in the sun to dry. "Because we had so little sunshine 

 and so much rain while I was making it," he explained, "it took me 

 8 days to make it. If my father had not helped me roll the cord, it 



