. Studies in primitive looms. patternheddles as well as a pattern rod. According to Van Genep1 thedesigns are taken from domesticobjects, and he mentions particularlythat one is taken from the pulley-block of a treadle loom. On the otherhand Pommerol,2 who no doubt hadbetter access to the womenfolk thanhe could have had, speaking of anexcellent old woman, says : El Hajteaches novices the art of castingthe threads of the weft [sic, should bewarp.—H. L. E.] from one peg toanother and arranoing these threads /^Wfi Y&- .-RH- Ry -?RS- Ritr ,*(. w6itfl . W7 ft? yryfe Opobo. R7 Rio *& MANCHESTER MUSE
. Studies in primitive looms. patternheddles as well as a pattern rod. According to Van Genep1 thedesigns are taken from domesticobjects, and he mentions particularlythat one is taken from the pulley-block of a treadle loom. On the otherhand Pommerol,2 who no doubt hadbetter access to the womenfolk thanhe could have had, speaking of anexcellent old woman, says : El Hajteaches novices the art of castingthe threads of the weft [sic, should bewarp.—H. L. E.] from one peg toanother and arranoing these threads /^Wfi Y&- .-RH- Ry -?RS- Ritr ,*(. w6itfl . W7 ft? yryfe Opobo. R7 Rio *& MANCHESTER MUSEUM R9 vertically in the primitive looms, made ^^ W°^N on with warpthse/j^ 4 u> of wood,string and reeds. She teaches R = kei> w ^.white £LLow them how to dye wool and how to mix the different shades of colour; but one thing she jealously guards, and that is the secret of the hieroglyphics, those mysterious and cabalistic designs, such as. FIG-. 10 ASJtANTi ioon (^ [THE WARP V/£K?>TT IS OUT OF PERSPECTIVE AND THE details ARE JNECESSAMW VAGUE]. squares, zig-zags and arabesques, which represent sometimes an object, sometimesan idea, and sometimes a phrase. Only to a few initiated does El Haja teach, and Etudes dEthnographie Algerienne, Paris, 1911, p. 100. Op. cit., p. 298. 56 H. Ling Roth.—Studies in Primitive, Looms. Z&itA J
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