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BASKETS. 
“bammy,” (a cake-biscuit made from the 
cassava), furnishes a very expedient method 
of extracting the poisonous juice of the gratered 
cassava. Fish-pots and donkey-hampers (Pl. L) 
are both types of baskets. The large clothes 
basket, two to three feet high and about two 
feet in diameter, must not be forgotten ; in 
addition to its ordinary domestic use for soiled 
linen the writer has heard of its application 
for disciplinary purposes — serving the purpose 
of a prison cell to a refractory child of five or 
six summers. This method of correction is 
not recommended, however, for the basket has 
by no means a deadening or retaining effect 
on sound ! 
Materials used in Basket-making*. 
Palmetto and thatoii, — thin, broad, light 
yellow straw ; for trunk, sandwich and other 
common hand-baskets (PI. II. 9, 10). 
Ippi-appa, — narrow white straw (sometimes 
twisted and sown together) ; used for small 
baskets only. 
Banana bark, — thin, broad, brown straw ; 
not often used. 
Bamboo, — sharp, thick, often square — 
notches of joints may be seen ; used for 
baskets the women carry on their heads to 
market, (these are the baskets that give rise 
to the problem of what to do with one’s feet 
in the cars on Saturday), also for clothes 
baskets, (PI. II. 4) etc. 
Hook, — similar to bamboo, but flatter and 
not so sharp ; for butchers’ baskets, (PI. II. 2) 
etc. 
