3840 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [BTH. ANN. 38 
certain fish (kassoroa), found on low-water mud banks (akin to 
that Inown to English boys as the “jumper” or “ four-eyes”), 
this form of quake is specialized 
by the Arawak as the kassoroa- 
akushi (i. e., fish eye); the latter 
being the figurative term for an 
interspace (WER, rv). For a 
method of making this form of 
crab quake when the itiriti is lim- 
ited see section 414. 
426. In the relatively much 
smaller specimens of the Ma- 
kusi for holding knickknacks, 
cotton, etc. (pl. 110 B), the foun- 
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warp. (PI. 110 B.) the formation of a distinct neck, 
the more careful bordering around the mouth, and, maybe, the 
insertion of an interpolated, secondary, or extra weft (fig. 144). 
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427. The only examples of a gabled form of rectangular base (pl. 
110 C) come from the Makusi, and, except in the increased number of 
hexagonal interspaces in the first row, are practically identical with 
