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with the length of the basket, are plaited in a twined fashion (sec. 
112), and another where the strands are crossed and form pentagons 
(sec. 110). The former will include the basket cages or creels (pl. 
108 A) employed in catching fish in the smaller streams (sec. 204). 
I have already described the technical details of the somewhat 
complicated Pomeroon district basket cage (fig. 134) as follows: 
It is made from split mamuri, and consists (A—D) of a more or less 
cylindrical body (a) and a cone-shaped head (6) made separately, 
but finally joined by inserting the latter into the former and “sew- 
ing” them in position. The manufacture of the body starts (B) with 
we 
Fic. 183.—Diagram of bakoké oval-base basket shown in plate 107 B. 
the tail end (¢) by means of a ring (d) on to which the warps are 
fixed. Each warp (e), at least twice the length of cylinder to be 
made, is doubled on itself at its middle, where it is attached to the 
tail ring by looping over and tying, or by tying direct (C). The 
main weft (B, /) is now introduced and made to pass, in the course 
of its spiral progress, alternately over and under every half warp. It 
is kept in position by means of a thinner strip (gy) woven alternately 
in front and behind it; i. e., the ordinary wrapped type of plait (sec. 
113). Each half warp throughout its whole length remains either 
under or over the main weft strand. Should the warp interspaces be- 
come too open, a new one can be easily inserted (h). The body is 
finished off either on the main weft itself or else elaborated with a lip 
projecting outward, similar to that sometimes met with on the head. 
