ro.1631. VOCABULARY OF MALAYSIAN BASKETWORK— MASOX. 



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thatch; thongs; tiles; tools, with cases; toys; traps (air, land, and 

 water); wallets; walls; water-crafts; weapons (lacings and lash- 

 ings) ; weirs; whips; winnowing apparatus. 



Vertical. — Applied to elements in an upright position. 



Vessels. — Of giant bamboo joints. Andamanese. (Kloss, Anda- 

 mans and Nicobars, p. 33.) Mentioned here because they have basket 

 functions, associate with them, and basketry technic abounds on them. 



Warp. — The elements on which woven baskets are built up. In 

 Malaysian ware the bottom splits become warps of the body. Warps 

 may be parallel, spreading, decussated, latticed, radiated, zigzag. 



Water bottles. — Cocoanut shells joined in pairs by a short rattan 

 handle, used by the Nicobarese to hold drinking water. (Kloss, Anda- 

 mans and Nicobars, p. 49.) Water is carried from the spring in bam- 

 boos, cut 5 to 6 feet in length, and borne over the shoulder, or in a 

 number of single joints that are put together in a basket. It is drunk 



Fig. 40. — Wkaitkd twinhdwobk. 



out of a fruit called " laboo," resembling the calabash, a hole being 

 made in the side of the neck, and another at the top, for vent. In 

 drinking, they hold the vessel at a distance above their mouths and 

 catch the stream as it descends. (Marsden, Sumatra, p. 55.) 



Wattling. — Coarse fence or fish weir in wicker or twined work. 

 Used in many ways both for traps and accessories. 



Weaving. — A term that should be saved for loomwork and used 

 here only for basketwork in which the passive and active elements 

 form distinct warp and weft. The active, or weft element, has 

 many varieties both in form and in process. Even fabrics, like flat 

 sennit, may be woven into baskets. In passing warps, the weft may 

 be checker, wicker, twill, wrapping, half hitched, knot, belaying, 

 figure-of-8, etc. 



Weft. — The active parts of basketwork founded on warps or 

 " stakes." 



