Boas] APPLICATION OF DESIGN TO FIELD 283 
important is the work on the lowest coil that, once started, with 
reasonable care a very good distribution could be maintained. 
Here it seems that not even for the extent of the circumference of 
the bottom did the woman succeed in measuring accurately, but 
even so the basket is very much better handled than those which 
have just been discussed. 
It is probable that in most baskets bearing corner designs fillers 
were not at first intended, but that the necessity for their incorpora- 
tion was felt as the work progressed. Undoubtedly this was so in the 
basket shown in Plate 49, f. 
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Fic. 71.—Filler 
Some women, however, to judge from the character of these small 
figures, evidently know that the filler is, in their work, usually un- 
avoidable and plan for it, either creating for these spaces smaller, 
complete designs, which are totally different, as in Plates 47, b; 49, f, 
or else cutting down or rearranging those already in use so that their 
proportions are appropriate, as in Plates 33, e, and 39, c. The pres- 
ence of these ‘“foreign”’ elements seldom seems to disturb the esthetic 
sense of the people; indeed, if the other bands come out fairly well, 
so that fillers are needed in either corner, they are much preferred, 
and it must be admitted that the effect is better than when they are 
absent (pl. 40, 0). 
