372 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [BTH. ANN. 38 
449, I am employing the term cover basketry in place of a better 
to denote the plaitwork built over and around certain vessels and 
implements for purposes of transport, protection, or decoration. 
The Warrau double-calabash float affords a very good illustration 
of the first of the uses to which such basketry may be put (fig. 
185 A). The second has already been noted (sec. 95), the technique 
taking on either a hexagonal (pl. 21 A), a pentagonal (fig. 185 C), or 
a looped (pl. 21 B; fig. 185 B) form. Examples of the third or deco- 
rative object of cover basketry would seem to be rarely met with 
nowadays, except in the hair combs (sec. 517), and perhaps in cer- 
Fig. 185.—Examples of cover basketry. 
tain forms of blowpipe (sec. 117). 'The only specimen of this kind 
of work that has ever come into my possession is a Makusi paddle- 
shaped club (pl. 37 A), where the plaitwork is of a twilled pattern 
with a single spiral weft. The method of manufacture (fig. 185 D) 
has evidently been the following: The portion of implement about to 
be decorated is covered with a single layer of separate warp, in close 
apposition, placed longitudinally, and firmly attached at their bases 
with kuraua twine. The spiral weft has then been introduced and 
wound around and around, left to right, from below up, producing 
in its course a pattern dependent upon the number and regularity of 
warps covered or backed. 
