Те Ranet Hrroa.—Maori Plaited Basketry and Plaitwork. 737 
plaiting of the side ape the filling-in of abe ends, and the formation 
of the bottom corners w 
With the porera на ng (b), a whara or ОРА was plaited to the 
depth required for the он) as if making a porera, but at the ends the 
disengaged wefts were left free. The two ends were then brought together 
and the disengaged sinistrals of one end were interplaited with the dis- 
engaged dextrals of the ees in exactly the same manner as filling 
in the ends of the rough basket The sides and ends of the basket were 
thus completed, leaving a inde of weft-ends at the upper border and 
a fringe of undivided butt uas at the lower. No bottom corners 
were made. 
The finish, at the upper. border, was made in four wa 
(1.) Whiri toru: The weft-ends were plaited in ые, but more 
carefully and neatly than in qnin rough baskets. 
(2.) Whiri tuamaka : "This was a four-ply plait at the upper border 
which made a rounder plait and gave a neater finish than the three-ply. 
s Kopetipeti, or kopekepeke : As already described in the section on 
m 
a) Whakakitaratara : This finish results in the upper border having a 
serrated appearance, from the wefts being plaited into a series of triangles 
with the apices upwards. The usual working-number of wefts to each 
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Fro. 41.— The finish, or upper border, of a kete. 
triangle is three sinistrals and three dextrals. The plaiting is done on 
the inner surface of the basket, and commences a the left. The first 
dextral (D1) is looped by bringing the end back on its own course. The 
first sinistral (Sl) crosses above the doubled first dextral. The second 
dextral (D2) is also looped, and the second sinistral passed through its 
sed uate, round, and over the doubled first dextral, and back 
third de: і. The ends of the first and second déikrala and the second and 
third sinistrals are drawn taut, and the triangle sharply defined (fig. 41). 
The free part t of the triangle really consists of these four wefts, as the 
other two assist in the formation of the bases of the triangles on either 
side. Thus reference to the above figure shows that Sl corresponds to 
th 
Maori instructress said, “ The third weft in this tooth will form the first 
weft in the next tooth." The triangles having being completed round 
24— Trans. 
