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METHOD OF MANUFACTURING POTTERY AND BASKETS. 
is made of the latter. The reed-grass is split, and some of it is 
dyed in different shades, usually brown, with which to produce 
Fig. i. 
Bottom of Basket. 
the figures, mostly straight-lined or zigzag. The grass of which 
the body is made is worked in its natural state. 
Fig. 2c. Fig 2 a . 
FlG.26. 
Method of binding the coils of grass. 
The basket progresses from the centre of the bottom, as shown 
in Fig. 1, which represents that part of natural size for baskets 
