September, 1913- Wild Tribes of Davao District — Cole. 77 



FIG. 23. 



FIG. 24. 



Types of weaving used 



in basketry. 



lation to it throughout the entire 



In the manufacture of baskets 

 the woman makes use chiefly of 

 bamboo and rattan, though other 

 materials, such as pandanus are 

 sometimes brought into service. 

 Three weaves or their variants 

 are employed. The first is the 

 common diagonal or twilled 

 weave, in which each element of 

 the weft passes over two or more 

 of the warp elements. In this 

 way most of the rice winnowers, 

 transportation baskets, knife 

 sheaths, and the like are made. 

 In the second weave (Fig. 22), 

 the foundation of the basket is 

 made up of parallel horizontal 

 rods, or strips of bamboo. These 

 are laced together by warp strips 

 which pass alternately under one 

 and over one of the foundation 

 rods, crossing each other at an 

 angle, one above the other below 

 the rod. The trinket baskets 

 carried by the women, the larger 

 waterproof receptacles known as 

 bindta, and the covers for wild 

 chicken snares are in this technic. 

 A variant of this weave is found 

 in the rattan carrying frames and 

 in some fish traps (Fig 23) . Here 

 the warp strips cross one another 

 at an angle, at each meeting place 

 enclosing the horizontal founda- 

 tion strips. Unlike the second 

 weave described, the warp strips 

 do not pass alternately above 

 and below the horizontal founda- 

 tion, but retain the same re- 

 length of each strip. A coiled 



weave (Fig. 24) is used in the manufacture of tobacco boxes (Plate XIX) 



