BASKET WEAVING Last October, two males were bold enough to surprise a party of ladies of the Maori Women's Welfare League at Te Kuiti on the pretext of wanting to know something about weaving. One of the males, for obvious reasons, has to remain anonymous, but the other was Mr John Ashton, a photographer working for Te Ao Hou. Mrs Tumohe, the lady of the house, received them kindly and most hospitably, and the pictures on these pages are a record of the methods used by Mrs Rangi Hetet, one of New Zealand's champion weavers, in making a simple basket. At least, she called it simple. The ladies also showed us their real masterpieces (photographed a little further on). In comparison to these, the demonstration basket was, of course, very modest. Still, one has to begin somewhere.