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design creates untold difficulties in subsequent layers; that is, if any 
attention is paid to their relation to each other, even if the basket 
is without corners. Figure 49 shows the arrangement secured by 
one artist, the result of whose efforts can not but challenge admiration. 
The late Dr. Hermann K. Haeberlin, who made a special study of 
these technical problems and their solutions by the women, collected 
a number of specimens in 
which various points were 
illustrated, and made some 
sketches of them. Disre- 
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tion, each of which covers 
three coils. In the first two 
the alternation of colors is 
regularly white, red, and 
black. The bands are connected at regular intervals by vertical stripes 
which, although only one stitch wide, mark the surface into sections. 
In the first two tiers these stripes appear after every second block, and 
those of the second tier are halfway between those of the first. In the 
third and fourth tiers the stripes still come after every second block, 
but the regular arrangement of the blocks has been dropped and they 
have been made longer in an effort 
to accommodate them to those of the 
tiers below, a task which becomes 
increasingly difficult as the basket 
circumference becomes greater. 
Finally in the fifth and sixth tiers 
the stripes and blocks show no coor- 
dination. This basket tells a story as 
Fia 50.—Banded decoration on basket. plainly as words of a woman who had 
Bie Cer a definite idea of decoration which she 
was obliged to abandon because of the impossibility of harmonizing 
the design with the shape of the basket, although the fact that she 
sought to do so is evident in the middle zone of the basket. 
Figures 51 and 52 are sketches. of baskets decorated with designs in 
such a manner that the corners are almost ignored. Were these bas- 
kets round instead of rectangular the style of decoration could not 
be improved upon. 
Fic. 49.—Corner of basket. U.S.N.M. 217453 
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