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under consideration, but have never done so, because it was not the 
“ proper kind.” Of the two specimens that have passed through my 
hands, both were manufactured by old Arawak, one of them long in 
contact with the Europeans and a reputed miser, the other a visitor 
to the Chicago World’s Exposition. In the one pegall (fig. 183) the 
central row of hourglasses on the cover has been replaced by a pat- 
tern very similar to that on the decorative border in figure 178 B. 
In the other (fig. 184) there has been an entire replacement with a 
row of herringbones, a twilled pattern, the coloration of the strands 
(which represent the markings on a local snake) helping in veiling 
the plaitwork. The technique of this twilled pattern is the lazy- 
man’s or toy style mentioned in section 433. 
448. The tentative classification under which I have grouped the 
baskets plaited with specially prepared strands may now be con- 
veniently tabulated thus: 
