BOAS] ‘ STRUCTURE OF BASKETS 189 
The fourth type of lid is like the parallel coiled flat lids of the 
first type, with the important difference that it is made all in one 
piece with the basket; that is, the coil which completes the walls 
continues and makes the lid. This is undoubtedly a late develop- 
ment. The procedure involved in its manufacture is as follows. 
When the basket walls are completed, the coil is not cut off near 
a corner on a long side, but having run the length of one side which 
. thereafter becomes the back of the basket, it is doubled and redoubled 
on itself, very much in the way parallel coiled bottoms are made, 
only that the lid is necessarily begun from the rim instead of from 
the center. These parallel coils are a little shorter than the orifice 
and do not extend to cover its full width. Instead, when a corner is 
reached at the front of the lid, after a long side has been completed 
and the maker is satisfied with the width, she carries the coil to the 
back of the basket, past the loops of the folded coils at one end of 
the lid, where she doubles it on itself and brings it back again, for- 
ward, along the front edge and around to the back along the other 
end, where she again doubles it back and brings it around the lid. 
Thus the lid is encircled on its three free sides several times, until 
the proper dimensions have been attained, when the coil is gradually 
diminished and comes to an end at the same corner where it began 
to surround the parallel section. This method of framing the parallel 
coils keeps the lid flat, strengthens it, and also enlarges it so that it 
projects over therim. The sketch and key given in Figure 17, g, may 
be of assistance in elucidating the manner of procedure. Plate 12, a, 
represents a basket with attached lid. 
When not made in one piece with the basket, practically all kinds 
of lids are started in the center, although there are a few excep- 
tions, as in the case of bottoms, where the work may be commenced 
at the side. But there is another way of beginning lids which must 
fit exactly over the basket flange at the rim. They are not easy 
to make, but enhance the appearance of the basket not only as 
regards alignment of coils, but also, because the direction of the 
imbrication is retained, which, when the lid is begun from the center, 
is the reverse of that on the basket. Plate 11, b, again serves as the 
example. 
Informant No. 29 told how she and her sister and friends make 
such lids. After being measured to fit over the flange of the basket 
exactly the length of coil required is wrapped, and when enough has 
been covered to encircle the basket the sewing process begins by 
joining the end to the coil at the point where the wrapping has been 
completed, so as to start the spiral. From there the bunch of splints 
is sewed down to the wrapped coil, forming the second loop of the 
spiral, which is gradually carried to the center. 
