. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ture a strongcloth with a two- or three-colour design init, the designs being produced by what isknown as a stop-out process. The warpthreads are stretched on a frame, andbundles of the threads are tied up here andthere with strips of palm-leaf, the positionof these tied-up bundles depending on thecharacter of the desired design. The warpis then dipped into a red dye, and on removalfrom it the palm-leaf strips are cut off, andthe design appears in the natural colour ofthe thread against a red b
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ture a strongcloth with a two- or three-colour design init, the designs being produced by what isknown as a stop-out process. The warpthreads are stretched on a frame, andbundles of the threads are tied up here andthere with strips of palm-leaf, the positionof these tied-up bundles depending on thecharacter of the desired design. The warpis then dipped into a red dye, and on removalfrom it the palm-leaf strips are cut off, andthe design appears in the natural colour ofthe thread against a red background, orvice versa, according as the stopping-out has been arranged. If a third colour isrequired, the palm-leaf strips are not cutoff on removal from the red dye, but moreare added, and the warp goes then into ablue dye, which, of course, acts only on theuncovered portions of the warp , the warp is stretched on a simpleloom, and an undyed weft is woven illustration on p. 175 shows a womantying up the warp-threads; frames holdingthe unwoven fabric in various stages are. KENYAH-KAYAN GIRL: SARAWAK. BORNEODrawn hv Norman H. Hardy. THE SUNDA ISI^ANDS AND CELEBES 173 in the background : the woman wears apetticoat of cloth of her own manufacture. Amongst the Kajans and many Indo-nesian tribes, such as the Land-Dayaks,Long Wai and Trings, the witch-doctorsare women, and by virtue of their sup-posed power over evil spirits, their services turcs occasionally take to themselves hus-bands, and tliough the luisbands areobjects of scornful derision to the tribe, thewitch-doctors authority is increased by hisentry into tlic state of pseudo-matrimony. Weddings are not attended with a greatdeal of ceremony, and are conducted very
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