ROTH] DOMESTIC IMPLEMENTS AND REQUISITES 327 
“ mouth ” or rather “ neck” portion becomes changed from an open- 
work to a closework type (fig. 122). Made from itiriti by men for 
the women to keep their cotton in. 
‘ In the Georgetown Museum is a hexagonal base, multiple weft 
basket (pl. 103 B) with a lid made from an extension of a certain 
ASS) 
OBS 
aw 
” 
mi 
a 
\ 
i 
ur 
Lp 
Fic. 121.—Farine basket. Makusi, Wapishana, etc. A, from side; B, from below. 
number of the warps and supported by the topmost weft, which, 
much longer than the others, now takes on a zigzag course (see fig. 
148). It is made of itiriti and probably of Makusi workmanship. 
Among remaining examples of the hexagon-base baskets with 
multiple wefts are the extraordinarily woven baskets known as tanaba 
