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cylindrical mold. The body may be then completed in any style of 

 technic. 



Fig. 32. (Cat. No. 244354, U.S.N.M.) is a nearly completed siri 

 basket in which the mold is based on a roll of very tough and rigid 

 bark and the corners of the bottom are established on four strips of 

 bamboo, the glossy sides outward. The elements of the bottom are 

 turned up for warps and, in this specimen, the cylinder was but partly 

 achieved, the corners only being rounded. The upsett is distinctly 

 patterned and the proc- 

 ess of figuring the 

 body is shown. The 

 plain weaving might 

 be replaced" by endless 

 varieties of technic. 



Mousing. — In coiled 

 jbasketwork, a double 

 Wrapping of the active 

 part, resembling the 

 sailor acceptation of 

 the term. In its sim- 

 plest forms it looks 

 like the script letter /. 

 (See fig. 26 and Leh- 

 mann, figs. 38, 39, 44.) 



Movements. — The ac- 

 tive parts of a tech- 

 nical process of the 

 Malaysians move in 

 general from left to- 

 ward the right, while 

 the civilized woman 

 works toward the left. 

 In this general proc- 

 ess toward the right 

 the Malaysian woman 

 makes subsidiary movements for each check or unit in the work. 

 These may be spoken of as up or down, in or out (toward the worker 

 or on the side away from the worker), inside or outside (referring to 

 a receptacle), right side or wrong side (referring to the fabric) ; 

 right or left, if horizontal, and right oblique or left oblique, if 

 inclined ; under, over, around, or through, to suit each case. 



Needle. — The needle with an eye is not known in Malaysian basket- 

 work, but needlework, or something resembling it. is very common 

 and quite ornamental on basket borders. Holes are drilled through 



u. Process of making a basket ovee a mold of 



STIFF BARK. 



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