. Studies in primitive looms. MUHSO WOMAN WEAVING A C10TH. F1&.153. Colonel »NST \h% YXVt. (\2>6. we do not find outside Indonesia. The illustration (Fig. 153) of a Miihso loom asgiven by Colonel E. G. Woodthorpe1 may at first sight appear to controvert the 1 Some Account of the Shans and Hill Tribes of the States on the Mekong, Jour. , 1896, p. 20. h 94 H. Lintg Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Zooms. fact that che frame is made up of two distinct portions, but the appearance of thisMiihso loom indicates rather artificial than natural growth. That is to say thegrowth has been
. Studies in primitive looms. MUHSO WOMAN WEAVING A C10TH. F1&.153. Colonel »NST \h% YXVt. (\2>6. we do not find outside Indonesia. The illustration (Fig. 153) of a Miihso loom asgiven by Colonel E. G. Woodthorpe1 may at first sight appear to controvert the 1 Some Account of the Shans and Hill Tribes of the States on the Mekong, Jour. , 1896, p. 20. h 94 H. Lintg Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Zooms. fact that che frame is made up of two distinct portions, but the appearance of thisMiihso loom indicates rather artificial than natural growth. That is to say thegrowth has been due to exotic influences. Thus the warp post points to a survivalof the Pacific type of loom, and the free reed to a period previous to that of the framewhich would be adopted with the double heddles and treadles when the latter werecopied from the Chinese. We have something similar in the Ashanti loom (Fig. 107),where a heavy stone, placed at some distance fro
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