roTH] DOMESTIC IMPLEMENTS AND REQUISITES 329 
lie so close together as almost to change the plait from an openwork 
to a close one. 
416. Circular or oval base type specimens of basket are built up 
on a foundation which may be either radiate, vertebrate, diaphrag- 
matic, or uninclosed. Of radiate patterns (pl. 104 A) perhaps the 
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Fig. 124.—Tanaba basket, with a slight variation. The two strands at each angle of 
the hexagon are approximated. 
commonest is that met with among the Arawak, where the warp 
strands, collected and superimposed in pairs, cross one another at 
their centers; the weft, during the passage of its first spiral, passes 
over or under each pair, but in its second and subsequent spirals 
ee Valea y 
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Fic. 125.—Diagram of basket illustrated in plate 103 C, 
overlaps and underlaps each constituent (fig. 126). [I am very 
suspicious that these baskets are of foreign origin—e. g., either Negro 
or East Indian, There is certainly no special aboriginal Indian 
term applied to express the articles.] Instead of the warp strands 
crossing at their centers in pairs, the Patamona make a basket where 
they are woven into a checker (fig.37 E) plait,one pair over and under 
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