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by both men and women, and used primarily, I believe, for carry- 
ing crabs (kua). 
mals and birds while being 
tamed. The Indian term 
has given rise to the word 
quake, a Creole word ap- 
plied to other kinds of open- 
work basket indiscriminate- 
ly. Schomburgk called it a 
queck (ScG, 246). Built up 
from the outside, unscraped, 
portions of split  itiriti 
stems, the foundation is 
formed by binding a vary- 
ing number of strands diag- 
onally across a pair of 
others placed parallel (fig. 
140), the extremities of all 
forming ultimately individ- 
ual warps. The number so 
employed will depend upon 
It can also often serve duty as a cage for ani- 
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Fic. 140.—Rectangular hipped-base basket, spiral 
weft. Commenced with two parallel strands 
crossed by diagonal ones. (Pl. 110 A.) 
the size of the basket required. Two 
or three warps are plaited around the length and breadth of the 
original pair of strands, and so keep the crossed ones in position. 
Fic, 
spiral weft. 
the diagonally placed strands in pairs. 
141.— Rectangular hipped-base basket, 
Commenced by looping together 
The weft is next introduced, 
in the form of a very long 
strand (we) and the plait 
work proceeded with, in a 
pentagon mesh (sec. 110) until 
the limits of what will finally 
be the mouth are reached. 
The latter is finished off by 
weaving other pieces of strand 
twice round the projecting 
warps, which are bent down 
upon one another for the pur- 
pose. A variation in the foun- 
dation can be made by the 
same people without any par- 
allel strands by looping to- 
gether the diagonally placed 
ones in pairs, the number of such loops varying from two to six 
or more, according to the size of basket (fig. 141). From the sup- 
posed resemblance of these loops at their junctions to the eyes of a 
