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hourglass pattern, to be immediately described, and continued on the 
twilled type (sec. 108). The proper way is for each half to be made 
of identical pattern, but sometimes the maker will have a lazy fit, and 
make the base of the lower complement wholly on the twilled type, 
somewhat after the style mentioned in section 447, a quick method 
sometimes adopted in the smaller articles made as toys for children 
or curios for tourists. It is interesting to note also that when the 
ordinary hourglass pegall is double-covered (sec. 115), the inner lining 
is often made after the armadillo style. All hourglass baskets, with 
but one exception (sec. 440), would seem to be made of itiriti. The 
hourglass plait is started with from six to eight strands (though 
I have seen as many as 16) arranged at their centers in such a way 
as to form two triangles (fig. 154 A, a), attached at their apices, to- 
Fic. 153.—Diagram of pegall shown in plate 112. A, Patamona, Makusi; B, Arawak. 
gether resembling a figure which may be legitimately likened to the 
old-time sand glass, whence I have named the pattern. This ar- 
rangement with uncolored strands is shown in the sketch (fig. 154B), 
but where one series of the strands is colored black (or red) but 
half its length (A), the resulting pattern shows colored (C, E) or 
plain (D) hourglasses, with plain or colored backgrounds, respec- 
tively. On the other hand, certain series may be so stained that the 
result depicted is F, a pattern of coloration specially practiced on 
occasion by Warrau. 
434, In a unique specimen met with among the otherwise orthodox 
Patamona pegalls I came across a multiple hourglass pattern ex- 
ample peculiar in that on the upper constituent (fig. 155 A) the cen- 
tral hourglass is plaited in the usual fashion, but the half of each 
lateral one is merged into what should constitute the intervening 
vertical bar; on the lower, as usual unstained (B), the intervening 
