342 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [ETH. ANN. 38 
caryum sp.) on a foundation represented in the diagram (fig. 147), 
may have a lid attached. This lid is but an extension of one of 
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the longer sides and is supported by the weft, which, upon leaving 
the top of the basket proper, discards its spiral form to assume a zig- 
zag serpentine course (fig. 148). 
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Fic. 147.—Diagram of pies basket shown in plate 109 A, 
429. In the crossed quadrilateral type of mesh the square founda- 
tion is formed of vertical and horizontal sets of strands crossed by 
diagonal ones (pl. 111 A; fig. 149), the initial “key” to its manu- 
facture being two strands crossed at right angles and fixed in position 
