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Itiriti is the material used. Certain specimens (pls. 99 A, B; 100 A) 
may be employed for collecting the cassava after it has passed the 
sifter or after removal from the matapi;:others may serve to hold 
fruit, cotton freed from seed, and for all other transport purposes. 
The construction of the edging would never allow of their being put 
to use as sifters. This edging (fig. 109 E) is manufactured on the 
same lines as the collar band of the matapi (sec. 348), and after hav- 
ing reached the requisite length, is folded lengthwise and the margin 
of the mat, cut away circularly, laid between its folds: the next proc- 
ess is to plait the free ends of the edging together so as to make a 
continuous ring of it. By finally tying on two hoops (a, 0): in the 
manner previously indicated (sec. 408) the edging becomes perma- 
nently fixed. Among the patterns depicted on these circular trays are 
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Vic. 112.—Circular tray. Edging supported by two rails. Wapishana. 
the diamond snake (fig. 110 A), periwinkle-track (B), monkey-skull 
(D), the quartering of a cassava cake (fig. 111 B), ete. 
410. In the Astrocaryum specimensof circular tray made by Wapi- 
shana and Taruma there is great similarity between their edging 
and that of the second group of mats (sec. 396) ; e. g., the two sets 
of plait strands not only constitute the bundle (which here encircles 
the whole article) but also assist in looping it up and keeping it in 
place. A difference lies in the introduction, for strengthening pur- 
poses mainly, of two and three rails (wefts), respectively (figs. 112, 
113). 
411. Circular hanging trays.—These are formed of circular frames 
hanging by four cords attached at their distal extremities. From its 
fancied resemblance to the animal hanging to a branch by its four 
limbs, it is spoken of by the Arawak as the sloth. The frame is 
formed of a pliable withe, across which are stretched lengths of vine- 
rope (titimi) or strips of kakaralli and other bark. In one variety 
