. Bulletin. Ethnology. 68 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 91 series of segments (i, ii, iii, iv, etc.) by means of clove liitches and terminates behind, around, and in front of the right-hand vertical bar. The thread now continues from right to left behind and over three strands of the seventh, fifth, third, and first segment, to end behind, around, and in front of the left-hand vertical bar (B). It next passes back again under and over three strands of the second, fourth, and sixth segments to end behind, aroimd, and in front of the right-hand vertical bar (0). It again returns from right
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 68 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 91 series of segments (i, ii, iii, iv, etc.) by means of clove liitches and terminates behind, around, and in front of the right-hand vertical bar. The thread now continues from right to left behind and over three strands of the seventh, fifth, third, and first segment, to end behind, around, and in front of the left-hand vertical bar (B). It next passes back again under and over three strands of the second, fourth, and sixth segments to end behind, aroimd, and in front of the right-hand vertical bar (0). It again returns from right to left under and over three strands of the seventh, fifth, etc., segments, and so on. All one has to remember is that in each successive passage of the thread from bar to bar it deals with segments alternating with the preceding, and has always to pass under and over three strands in connection with the segment dealt with (D). While in reality the thread is kept quite taut and in close apposition on either bar, it is represented. Figure 67.—Manufacture of the Waiwai hammock, continued. (Sec. 477 A.) The frame is turned on its long axis prior to making the scale lines in the diagram as quite loose to show the technique. After the weaving has been completed, the frame is turned on its long axis, the (now) lower bar being shifted into another pair of holes 8 or 10 inches farther down, its place in between the lowermost loops being substituted by a string that is tied across the bars. (Fig. 67.) The scale lines are now made. This is worked with a make- shift shuttle upon which the thread is wound; the end of the latter is secured to the extremity of the original compound crosstie with, which operations were commenced, and passed over and under the lower bar. In the meantime, the operator, worldng from left to right, picks up the first three of the lowermost set of loops, into which he passes the second three, the two sets being hitched to- gether by the scale line in the manner
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