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I have seen it turned upside down and used as a hencoop. It is this 
kind of basket which is sometimes woven over the larger gourds and 
earthen jars for protective purposes (sec. 449) 
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Fig. 118.—Waikarapa basket. Hexagon base; single spiral weft. From side. 
413. Other examples of the spiral-weft variety (figs. 117, 118) 
ire the more or less cylindrical waikarapa baskets of the Makusi, also 
found among the Wapishana, who speak of them by the generic term 
of wakarad. The proximal portion of the weft becomes treated as a 
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Fic. 119.—Diagram showing the base of baskets illustrated in plate 102 
warp; no extra warps are inserted, and the walls are likewise of a 
hexagon mesh. They are made of itiriti by men, but used by women 
for holding cotton in the house. Here may occasionally be seen (pl. 
102; fig. 119) the first attempt (in these baskets) at restricting the size 
of the hexagonal interspaces by the subsequent introduction of a con 
