RoTH] DOMESTIC IMPLEMENTS AND REQUISITES 353 
imposed extra strands. The lower ends of these extra ones are finally 
broken or turned up, plaited into one another to form the supporting 
ledge, and their free extremities finally cut. 
441. Multiple hourglass pattern pegalls (pls. 116; 117 B) are 
made on the lines already indicated in section 433 and show 
great varieties both in size and in pattern (sec. 443). 
442. The larger satchels (pl. 
117 A; fig. 166 A) formerly 
met with among the Pomeroon 
Arawak, and evidently, in 
earlier days, among certain Chikil 
Indians of Cayenne (pl. 117 /, ae 
C) must be regarded as very “; Yj, CK SS) 
SELREIENQ SSSy/ 
much flattened multiple hour- 
glass pegalls, the mode of 
construction and pattern 
being identical, the difference Fs. 163,.—Compound bowl or basin basket. 
ie ly in the shape. Second stage in the making. 
ying omy Pp 
But there is certainly what I should call a degenerate form of com- 
paratively small satchel (fig. 166 B), shaped very like the old fash- 
ioned leather cigar case, where, owing to the limited width of plait, 
the hourglass is only traceable (C) or is replaced altogether by 
(what was originally adjacent) the herringbone (D). It is some- 
times to be seen on the Pom- 
eroon, but is apparently made 
more as a toy for tourist or 
retail purposes. 
443. Names are not usually 
applied to the patterns on the 
uncolored hourglass pegalls, 
although certain of them are 
identical in construction with 
those met with in the stained 
specimens and in the cassava 
squeezers (fig. 167). On the 
other hand, with the use of 
BG tO ca Dace: ee tlc basket. color, while the cover tops of 
the pegalls are all more or less 
identical (figs. 154-156), the artificer will exercise skill and ingenuity 
in depicting various patterns upon the sides, adding as often as not 
certain decorative borders (fig. 169, #) above and below. These 
patterns, my informants tell me, are handed down from father to 
son, and it is certainly remarkable that, in the absence of any working 
model, these Indians will execute so many and such varied designs 
