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cutting, ete. (fig. 159 A), they are tightly twisted and tied into a 
composite bundle to constitute the handle (B). Of course, previous 
to the twisting and tying, certain seeds, shells, etc., are inserted. 
438. The next category would include the large tublike baskets for 
storing the cassava cakes, known to the Arawak as habba. Here 
the foundation may be from 15 to 18 inches across, the increase 
in size being obtained by plaiting an increased number of rectangular 
“herringbone” frames (sec. 435) around the central hourglass. On 
completion of all the plaitwork and protection of the free edges with 
split cane, etc., the whole is supported on four legs, to each of which 
it is tied below at one of the corners, and above to the free edging 
now strengthened with cane (sec. 436). The basket is made of itiriti 
(pl. 132 C). 
439. A third distinct group comprises the curious belly baskets 
(pl. 114) of the Arekuna, Patamona, and others who use them for 
holding peppers. The first specimens I came across were certain 
single-belly ones from the Pomeroon River Arawak, or rather 
Fic, 160.—Diagram of a single-belly basket shown in plate 114. 
limited to one of its creeks, the Wakapoa, but there is reason to 
believe that they are not indigenous to fhe district. Such articles 
differ in technique from all other baskets of the series in that no 
pattern is, or rather can be, worked into the sides. In a single- 
belly specimen (fig. 160), the whole of the latter is plaited first of 
all in the common twilled fashion of one strand over and under 
three (az), and then with one strand over and under two (2), so as to 
get the “ bulge,” the maximum of which is obtained by plaiting one- 
over-and-under-one (c). To lessen the bulge, the processes are, re- 
spectively, reversed, and thus the normal size once more reached. 
The Arekuna and Patamona specimens may be plaited into as many 
as three bellies. Made by men from itiriti. 
440. The last and most difficult of the single hourglass series to 
explain and describe are the compound basin or bowl shaped bas- 
kets (pl. 115) made from the “ pimpler” (akkoytiro) palm by 
Wapishana and Makusi. They are the only kind of hourglass pat- 
tern basketry not made of itiriti. Plaited like the preceding on a 
square foundation, i. e., a single central hourglass, it differs from 
