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is thus utilized by Warrau women, who make a sort of spoon-shaped 
scoop out of it (fig. 194) by successively interlacing the previously 
slit-down septa from alternate sides, starting with the outermost. 
After some half-dozen or so have thus been interlaced the remaining 
septa of each half of the leaf are plaited together into a tail, the two 
tails being finally crossed and tied along the distal margin of the 
basket. These people call it a horobihi. On the Rupununi River 
and its tributaries are also to be met some very interesting forms of 
single-leaf ite baskets, known as daro-an (Wapishana), pakaruma 
(Makusi), ete. (pl. 120 B, C). 
455. But the ite leaf can also be split and used double, e. g., by 
Wapishana, Makusi, and others, to take on shapes, ete., that may be 
Fic, 193.—Diagram of Taurepang knapsack with a double itiriti strand. Sim- 
ilar to Patamona article with a double mamuri strand, and to Pomeroon 
Carib one with a single itiriti strand. 
specialized under different names. Tor instance, there are the trays 
or “plates” for handing food to visitors on, ete. (pl. 121), which, 
from their resemblance to the shape of a sting-ray, are known as 
tchtiipare (Makusi) or yi-bur (Wapishana). The patterns may be 
either horizontal or vertical, while the leaf-tips themselves are either 
plaited into sides and rim or else into a band running down the 
back. Then, again, there are baskets, each of two half leaves, plaited 
in such a way as to form baskets for carrying the pepper pot (pl. 122 
A,B,C), and known as sintakai-an (Makusi) and ka-irrkinkinyan 
(Wapishana), and other similar but larger ones (D), not used for 
transport but for slinging up, by strings attached at the extremities, 
to the house beams. Then there is the squat little basket (pl. 123 A), 
which, owing to its resemblance to the larynx of the howler monkey— 
