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before setting. To get the fish out whenever caught, these are re- 
moved. Occasionally these baskets may be employed with a mov- 
able door worked by a spring (sec. 200). An unusual form of 
“basket” of a rolled cylindrical shape (KG, 1, 43-44) comes from 
the Rio Caiary, a branch of the Uaupes (pl. 50 C), where it 1s em- 
ployed in the capture of the smaller-sized fish. The hassa fish can 
be caught in an ordinary basket as it rushes out of its “ nest ” when 
danger threatens its young (SR, 1m. 411, 412). 
205. The Parikuta and Waiwai employ a basket trap, known as 
the kanima, on lines indicated by the accompanying diagram (fig. 
62). The basket, from 25 to 3 feet long, is suspended under water 
more or less horizontally and maintained in position against the 
crutch of two sticks fixed at an angle into the water bottom. The 
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suspension of the basket is effected by means of (a) a strong bush 
rope attached on either side of the basket mouth and at the center 
by means of a clove hitch to the tip of the spring; and (0) a delicate 
vine rope attached at its center to the bait, with its ends passing 
through the wickerwork of the basket and tied to the spring at some 
distance below the other one. The fish upon entering the basket 
and attacking the bait bursts the vine rope, with the result that, the 
spring now freed, the basket (with its contained fish) is jerked out 
of the water and kept out of reach of the pirai, etc. The mouth of 
the trap must be downstream (JO). 
206. The Wapishana and Makusi use an open-mouth basket (pl. 
49 C) made of kokerit to throw over the fish in very shallow water 
or mud. The creature is then caught by the hand, inserted from 
above. The former tribe speak of it as du-m, the latter as tu-mu. 
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