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were young, they have long since given it up, and many have never 
seen it at all. 
As far as Mr. Teit’s knowledge extended, in all the rims found 
braiding and overcasting are one process. The steps involved may 
be more readily visualized if it is imagined first that the basket is held 
as during ordinary sewing. The first hole (1), Figure 13, a, 6, is made 
with her awl in the coil (4) to which the rim coil (5) is being sewed 
and the splint is drawn through it, away from the worker as far as 
desired, usually until the butt end almost disappears in the coil at (1). 
The length is then brought back up over the rim a little to the right 
and a hole (2) perforated near the top of the bunch of splints that are 
being covered (5), almost over the one (1) which has just been made 
in the coil below. Through this the splint passes again in the direc- 
tion away from the worker, and after it has been pulled tight (2) 
it is brought back up over the rim again, this time crossing the 
diagonal whip stitch which it made before, and coming down to the 
right, where it penetrates a hole (3) made for it just to the right of the 
Fic. 14.—Braided rims; Klickitat 
first hole (1). From here on the process is repeated indefinitely, 
always to the right, and a braid stitch is the result. Looking down 
on top of the rim, the appearance is that of a series of slightly over- 
lapping V’s or cheyrons (fig. 13, ¢). 
Figure 14 shows another variety (Klickitat) where the braiding 
lies on top of the coil instead of being sewed to it. The lower coil is 
perforated as before, and the splint is pushed or drawn through its 
whole length, then brought up over the rim and down to the right, 
where it enters a second hole made beside the first one (fig. 13, a, 2). 
This gives the necessary “starter,” for without the diagonal whip 
stitch across the top there would be nothing to start the braid upon. 
After the splint has been pulled through the second hole, however, 
away from the worker, it is brought up over the rim again (fig. 14, 
a, 2), but this time cutting across it to the left and intersecting the 
previous whip stitch. Instead of penetrating a hole perforated in the 
top coil, it merely slips under the first whip stitch which it has just 
crossed, at 3, and comes out at the intersection of the two, in the angle 
which lies farthest from the worker at 4; namely, toward the inside 
of the basket. It now crosses itself again going over the stitch it 
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