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hazelnuts. They are practically identical in size, for the ‘nut 
shape”’ is the most fixed and widely known of any of the round forms. 
It is also one of the oldest. The bottom is usually small, circular, 
and flat, but the sides have two distinctive forms. The first variety 
is largest in diameter through the middle; the other is widest higher 
up, at what may be called the shoulder. Among the people them- 
selves there is some disagreement as to which is the original form, 
but according to Mr. Teit, the former type is the older one. So well 
established have size and shape become that no one who makes a 
nut-shaped basket attempts to deviate noticeably from the standard. 
Every woman who manufactures one has a clear conception of how 
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it must appear when finished and adjusts her work accordingly. 
She may alter the size a little, but never the shape, which is always 
one of the two types just mentioned. It is claimed that long ago 
there were very large “‘nut shapes,” but these are not made any more. 
They were about four times the size of the little ones and were used 
for holding stored provisions, or for clothes and ornaments, tobacco, 
or kinnikinnick. 
The average size of the former variety and its most common pro- 
portions are illustrated by the following measurements of four speci- 
mens which were declared by the three women of the upper bands 
before mentioned to be good examples. 
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), Holete | auetete, | ap eieeten | area 
| Cm. Cm. Cm. Cm 
Nos ih ae ys as. OF 208s TD? TERI 
Nap Det Soe 12.7 19.3 11.9] 11.3 
INO} dered eric 12.1 19.3 SuGul 1231 
Ni ee eS a peti 17.8 BL 8,122.7 
Very small baskets of this shape would, according to these inform- 
ants, be considered as curiosities and were of little practical use. A 
nut-shaped basket with greatest diameter a little above the middle, 
which measured 19.4 cm. in height, 23.5 cm. in its greatest diameter, 
