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these conditions? The maker resorts to the following method. Instead of 
imbricating the top coil with one strip, as is ordinarily the case, she used two, 
one over the other, first black, and above it white. Thus the design is carried 
through and the black line appears between the two white ones. The maker 
did not move up one coil for the top white line because she had already started 
the snake on the opposite long side (a) in that coil and the jump occurs at the 
edge between the sides a and b. The snake must extend over the same number 
of coils as the beadwork of the other sides. The mistake was made when the 
weaver started the lowest extremity of the stepped ornament on the lower part 
of the basket. She ought to have started one coil sooner than she did. What 
has been said of the treatment of the top coil on the side c also pertains to the 
corresponding parts of the ornaments on the other sides. 
VERTICAL STRIPES AND SERIES 
The vertical styles of decoration, or those which, while not vertical, 
do not encircle the basket, are numerous, and offer perhaps the best 
opportunities for the study of the points in which we are interested. 
The question as to 
whether these stripes or 
series extend all the way 
from base to rim or not 
does not affect the prob- 
lems which the women 
have to solve, except in 
one particular. Vertical 
stripes or series begun at 
the base of a basket are 
more likely to be out of 
line and place in the up- 
per portion of the basket 
than those which have 
been begun somewhere about halfway between the base and the rim. 
In the latter case the peculiar twisted form which the basket generally 
acquires has had ample chance to become apparent by the time the 
structure is partly completed, and the woman has at least some idea 
of the degree of structural defect she is likely to have to deal with 
and can space accordingly. Designs begun at the very bottom are 
perhaps spaced correctly around the circumference of the base, but 
the subsequent turning of corners of the basket wall so completely 
alters the relation of the faces to the bottom that designs frequently 
are quite out of place. It often happens that a woman appears 
to take this probable difficulty into account at the beginning, for 
in no other way could we find a reason for the extremely one-sided 
spacing sometimes seen, except the lack of even average ability to 
calculate distances. Her overanxiety to correct the trouble at the 
outset sometimes results in even more pronounced incongruities 
than usual, since the defects in structure occasionally do not come 
up to her anticipations. 
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Fic. 62.—Arrangement of zigzag design. U.S.N.M. 216408 
