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These and especially kindred forms of basket-vessels were often quite 

 elaborately ornamented, either by the insertion at proper points of dyed 

 wrapping-splints, singly, in pairs, or in sets, or by the alternate painting 

 of pairs, sets, or series of stitches Thus were produced angular de- 

 vices, like serrated bands, diagonal or zigzag lines, chevrons, even ter- 

 races and frets. (See Figs. 507, 508, r>09.) There can be no doubt that 



Fig. 507. — Typical basket decoration. 



Fig. 508. — Typical basket decoration. 



Fig. 509. — Typical basket decoration. 



these styles and ways of decoration were developed, along with the 

 weaving of baskets, simply by T elaborating on suggestions of the lines 

 and figures unavoidably produced in wicker-work of any kind when 

 strands of different colors happened to be employed together. Even 

 slight discoloration s in occasional splints would result in such sugges- 

 tions, for the stitches would here show, there disappear. The proba- 

 bility' of this view of the accidental origin of basket-ornamentation may 



