korH] DOMESTIC IMPLEMENTS AND REQUISITES 345 
side, passes back in its own length, to be finally tucked under the 
penultimate transverse pairs (fig. 152). All the pairs projecting 
from below, around the periphery of the framework, are turned up 
now to help form the sides by passing a weft, one at a time, succes- 
sively, over and under them, the extremities of each weft being tucked 
a 
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Fic, 151.—Diagram of single oval-mouth basket with mesh similar to that shown in plate 
112. View of base from outside. 
under one another. The height and shape of the walls, of course, de- 
pend upon the number, nature, length, etc., of the wefts introduced. 
Manufactured by Makusi and Wapishana. 
432. With the rectangular-top article (pl. 112) there is no frame- 
work to which the foundation is attached, and it should be noted 
that, whereas the projecting strands 
on the longer sides of it are already 
in pairs, those on the shorter mar- 
gins are obtained by taking them 
up in bundles of four (Arawak) 
and cutting short the first and third 
constituent of each (fig. 153 B), or 
in bundles. of three (Patamona, 
Makusi) and tucking the middle 
strand between and under the other 
two (A). 
433. Twilled (hourglass pattern) 
baskets (pegalls) have already been : 
referred to (sec. 481). They are Fic. 152.—Base of preceding, viewed 
plaited in two similar halves, one sa eae 
slightly larger than the other, so that the former when inverted will 
act as cover for the latter. They thus together constitute something 
very much after the style of a lady’s dress basket. The name, some- 
times written “ pack-all,” is the Creole corruption of the Carib term 
pagara or pagala. Now, all pegalls other than those already men- 
tioned as of the armadillo type (sec. 431) are commenced with the 
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