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(b.) Kete pupuiu, or kete pae (closely plaited satchels): This class of 
basket obtains its name from being plaited closely together and leavin: 
no spaces between the wefts. They were used for containing more valued 
possessions, and not for rough work. In these days the older women are 
matches, so that they correspond to the modern civilized woman’s 
handbag for holding her purse, handkerchief, vanity-box, and cigarette- 
case. Prepared wefts in white and black are used, and another generic 
name for the class is putea. They are made in all sizes. Plain white 
baskets are made with the same twilled stroke throughout, or plain 
designs are worked by changing the stroke. Geometrical designs in black, 
white, and yellow had full play. In some cases the entire basket was 
made of black wefts, and in others diagonal bands of white, running in the 
same direction or crossing, were made by introducing four or six white 
wefts at regular intervals along the keel. White baskets in a similar 
way were made with narrow diagonal bands of black or yellow. Some 
were made entirely of pingao, and the wefts being narrow resulted in a 
neat golden-coloured basket. By plaiting the foundation-keel with every 
alternate weft black and the others white, or making all the sinistrals+ 
freely hawked about the towns, but nowadays the few remaining skilled 
obtain them. As in the case of the porera mats, the coloured wefts — 
formed an essential part of the structure of the basket; whereas in the 
Polynesian baskets I have seen, from Niue Island, the coloured elements B 
are overlaid, as in the case of their mats. The various coloured designs ae 
must postponed for treatment with those of the porera mats _ 
A splendid assortment of these baskets is figured in Hamilton's Mao? _ 
Art, vol. 4, plate 44. Ps 
e beginnings, in the district under discussion, consist of two forms :— = 
(a.) The whiri beginning, as in the case of the open-plaited baskets, 
