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horizontal (pl. 72 B) laminated edging. The technique is repre- 
sented in plate 73 A, B, and C, D, respectively. 
358. Among the Makusi and Wapishana of the Takutu is to be 
seen a sifter with the body plaited in two distinct models (pl. 71 B; 
fig. 88) —an inner central portion not distinguishable from the pattern 
to be observed on an “Austrian” cane seat, and an outer one iden- 
Fic. 87.—The Makusi and Wapishana cassava sifter. 
tical with what has been already recorded. I have seen it employed 
in the manufacture of farine. 
359. While the sifters of the Siusi (Arawak stock) and Uanana 
(Betoya) of the upper Rio Negro bear resemblance in their dupli- 
cated rectangular frames (KKG, 1m, 220) to the articles above de- 
scribed, the technique of the body is quite different (pl.74B). The 
former is a checker pattern spaced; the latter a hexagonal one. (Secs. 
106, 109.) In marked contract to these simpler forms are the very 
complicated round sifters of the Oyana (GOK, pl. vir, fig. 4), and 
