. Studies in primitive looms. kins in any way. The natives must have hadskins, but no doubt all traces of any skin or leather have disappeared long ago andhence the explorers are unable to make any record of them. The natives may not 1 Op. tit., p. 382. 2 F. Vaughan-Kirby : Zululand Skin-Dressing. Man, Mar., 1918, 23. 140 H. Ling Roth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. have used skins for clothing purposes, for there is plenty of evidence, in the existenceof warp weights and spindle whorls, that they were weavers, but the skins beingthere must have been made use of and here we have tools which were
. Studies in primitive looms. kins in any way. The natives must have hadskins, but no doubt all traces of any skin or leather have disappeared long ago andhence the explorers are unable to make any record of them. The natives may not 1 Op. tit., p. 382. 2 F. Vaughan-Kirby : Zululand Skin-Dressing. Man, Mar., 1918, 23. 140 H. Ling Roth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. have used skins for clothing purposes, for there is plenty of evidence, in the existenceof warp weights and spindle whorls, that they were weavers, but the skins beingthere must have been made use of and here we have tools which were adapted fordressing the skins and were no doubt used for that purpose. This, so to speak,absence of first-hand evidence of the existence of dressed skins or leather in any formhas also, I venture to think, misled Bulleid and Gray as regards the functions ofcertain pieces of worked wood which, they say, are presumably parts of looms orappliances for making textile fabric/1 In Plate LV they show some of this wood /S
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