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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. XXXV. 



Whipped, whipping. — Joined with an overcast movement, as in 

 coiled basketry. 



Wicker. — Basketwork in which the passive parts are rigid and the 

 active are flexible, passing in and out among the former. (See Plates 

 .1, XVI.) 



Wid( ning. — A great deal of Malaysian basketry is wider at the top. 

 In openwork this is accomplished by simply increasing the distances 

 betAveen the warps in ascending. Another way is to insert new 



warps above the corners of 

 the footing. 



Wind (ir<m n<I). — To pass 

 spirally around a fixed core 

 or axis. A useful word for 

 the very common technic of 

 passing a thin split spirally 

 about a stem or a number of 

 splits, to make them one. In 

 American basketry a bunch 

 of splits are wound and at 

 the same time caught to the 

 coil below : but the Malays do 

 more of this winding, because 

 they have much longer and 

 more uniform material. 



Woodwork. — ( See Joiner- 

 work.) 



W o i' /»•. — -The termination 

 " work " may be applied in 

 describing basketry, to the 

 materials, the processes, or 

 the products of the industr 

 There may be spathew* 

 barkwork. bastwork, ood- 

 work, leaf work, stemwork, 

 and rootwork, either in the 

 rough or prepared. There 

 will be knotwork, braidwork, checkerwork, twillwork, twinework, 

 coilwork, wrapwork, and combinations of these. Each of these 

 processes may also be employed elsewhere, giving rise to roofwork. 

 wallwork, fioorwork, mat work, hoopwork, and joinerwork. The 

 plant world will for a long time be in the way throughout Malaysia, 

 offering superabundance of material to the textile art. 



Wrap. — To pass around, as where a flexible e 1 I 



about one or more rigid ones. There is a wrapp' .^, found in 



Southern California, in the mounds of the Mk_ -ppi Valley, and 



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