EXPLANATION OF CHITIMACHA BASKETRY-PLATE 23
 (N. M. Nos. 253541, 253543, 253513, 253545, 253505, 253521, 253533, 253526, 253522)

 When angles are made in the lines called kastp: the resulting designs are known
as kastpx-apctI'xn, "broken plaits," and a number of different forms of these are
illustrated in this plate. On the piece of matting shown in figure a these broken
plaits are interrupted by two lines of blackbirds' eyes (see pl. 27), and in b the
broken plaits are concentric around the design explained in plate 29, a.