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purpose. Basket work is very cleverly woven with 

 strands of different colours representing geometrical 

 patterns, people, and objects. It may be thought 

 that the outlines of human and animal figures are 



BASKET-WORK HAT : WHALING SCENE INWOVEN. 

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too stiff, but one must remember that the rigid 

 nature of the basket work compels the worker to 

 make straight lines. 



Some drawings of animals are provided with 

 human, or almost human faces. This is done, not 

 because] the worker is unskilful, but because he 



