BoAs| APPLICATION OF DESIGN TO FIELD 299 
Several women discussed in detail the construction of a lid similar 
to that shown on Plate 11,6. They agreed that in the first place the 
structure of the lid was bad, and in consequence it was very difficult 
to apply the imbrication correctly. They declared that a lid of this 
shape was no more difficult to construct than any other and the 
problems it presented were certainly no worse than those encountered 
in building some sharp-cornered baskets. They considered the 
design rather inappropriate for a lid of this shape, as it would also 
be for a more circular flat surface, because it was very difficult to 
adjust. The maker was criticized as not having spaced her design 
properly in the beginning. Her imbrication points at different 
angles at the corners (i. e., not at an equal number of degrees at each 
corner), because the coil stitches have been permitted to vary in 
their relative positions. They did not believe that this had been 
caused by holding the lid in a 
different position from that usu- 
ally maintained by the average 
worker. They criticized that 
the coils had been stitched to- 
gether in the same way as when 
making a bottom; and that 
little care had been taken to 
place each stitch correctly at 
the corners, as must be done 
when making an imbricated lid. 
All these errors resulted in an 
asymmetrical design. They ex- 
plained that in turning a sharp 
corner the stitches must spread 
at the outer edge of the coil and at the same time overlap on the 
inner edge, and evidently any carelessness in placing them would 
affect the position of the whole design. In bottoms which are not 
imbricated slight inaccuracies are not of such importance. 
Other lids are given in Figure 89 and Plates 11, 12, 14, 35, 36, 41, 42, 
45, 48, 49, 50, and 51. It is only comparatively recently that the 
women have undertaken such difficult artistic and technical problems 
as those shown in the illustrations just discussed. The former deco- 
rations were largely beading, not only for the parallel-coiled lids 
shown here but for the watch-spring and elongated coils as well. 
Lids like that given in Plate 50, c, a (=56, a), while not presenting 
any complicated artistic problem, display very well the technical 
genius of the builder, who by means of carefully graded parallel coils 
constructed a lid which in appearance is exactly like the hump tops 
of our old-fashioned trunks. The piece of imbricated work shown in 
Plate 50, f, is not a lid but the inside bottom of a tub-shaped basket, 
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Fic. 89.—Decorated lid 
