. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 17.—Carib pannier and cover. rather than orthodox pattern. Probably as the market for the better work grew worse—the average price for the ordinary Armadillo pagara has fallen in 10 years from a dollar to a shilling—the older men ceased to interest themselves in these ornamental wefts and the young men never learned Figure 18.—Valise. Other utensUs manufactured from larouman strands are: (a) The "panier cocaille," used for storing eggs, etc., in shape somewhat resembling an openwork basket with hexagonal base (fig. 19). Made in open hexagonal weav
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 17.—Carib pannier and cover. rather than orthodox pattern. Probably as the market for the better work grew worse—the average price for the ordinary Armadillo pagara has fallen in 10 years from a dollar to a shilling—the older men ceased to interest themselves in these ornamental wefts and the young men never learned Figure 18.—Valise. Other utensUs manufactured from larouman strands are: (a) The "panier cocaille," used for storing eggs, etc., in shape somewhat resembling an openwork basket with hexagonal base (fig. 19). Made in open hexagonal weave with horizontal cross-weave. About 1 foot to 18 inches across. (6) The "hebichet," or cassava sifter, made in the alternate one- over-and-under-two pattern, either round or, less commonly, rectan- gular (fig. 20). The projecting strands are bound onto a double-hoop edging made from two superimposed lengths of a stout Uana known. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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