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practically perfect specimens of horizontal and all-over designs may 
be discussed here, before taking up the vertical styles, since the latter 
bring with them a number of other problems not presented by the 
first group. 
The first of these perfect specimens with a horizontal zigzag 
pattern in red, white and black, which has been admirably handled, 
has been sketched by Doctor Haeberlin in Figure 59. He discussed 
the design as follows: 
There are four zigzags on each long side and two on each short side. The long 
sides are about 8 inches in length, the short sides about 4. (This is a spa’panrk 
basket, of the same shape as the full-sized burden baskets.) At each of the 
four corners the zigzags are symmetrical with the edge of the basket. They 
extend over 12 coils and the different parts of all of them are in corresponding 
AI OF BASHET 
Fic. 59.—Adjustment of zigzag pattern to corner of basket. A.M.N.H. 16-4581 
coils; that is to say, point m, Figure 59, is in the same coil in every zigzag. The 
top and bottom of the zigzags consist always of three stitches. This is a remark- 
able regularity, especially striking at the corner where the coil stops. What 
has been said above also obtains for this corner. This regularity was not brought 
about by counting the intervening unimbricated stitches, because these are not 
by any means of corresponding numbers. It seems to have been accomplished 
by dividing the first coil by eye into four parts on the long sides and two on the 
short sides. The ensuing difficulties were then avoided by making the unim- 
bricated stitches larger and smaller as the case dictated. The stitches are 
irregular in size and number, excepting those of the imbricated band, which are 
at least always constant in number. 
An all-over decoration which is very pleasing to us on account of 
its regularity is shown in Figure 60. Doctor Haeberlin says: 
This arrangement is so regular that the intention of dividing the cireumference 
into eight parts when the first imbricated coil was made is quite obvious. The 
number of stitches between the blocks did not furnish a basis of division because 
these vary, but the divisions must have been made by eye. 
