no. 1631. VOCABULARY OF MALAYSIAN BASKETWORK—MASOX. 



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Knives. — (See Tools.) 



Knot work. — The structure, successions, and series of knots are of 

 immense account to the student of Malaysian basketwork. In speak- 

 ing of them the illustrations and names given under the word "* knot " 

 in the Standard Dictionary should be used. In some cases the native 



Fig. 21. — Overhand knot in single strand. 



name would be desirable.' 7 The knots found on basketwork by Leh- 

 mann are: Overhand, simple knot, in several variations; weaver's 

 knot, several positions; single bow knot,' double bow knot; aarrich 

 bend; square knot; slip knot. Flemish haul; flgure-of-8 knot; and 

 clove hitch. The two-round turn and two-half -hitch knot, extremely 

 common in Malaysia, and here 

 called Malay knot, or hitch, must 

 be added. 



Knots may be named after their 

 technic and after their functions. 

 There are single knots of any kind 

 or series of knots or knots in a 

 single series: they may be in the 

 texture or superadded : for use or 

 for ornamentation; in the middle 

 of a strand, at the ends of a 

 strand, the tying together of the 

 two ends, or the joining of an end 

 to a bend or middle: there are 

 binding knots, sewing knots, slip 

 knots, nooses, snares, trap knots, 

 net knots, and covering knots to 

 hide ugly splices, corners, rims, 

 and joints. Of the covering variety, the overhand knot in single 

 strand, hiding the tops of the little posts at the margin of carrying 

 baskets, deserves special notice. (See fig. 21.) 



Fig. 22 shows a species of knotwork, in single splits, seen on shields 

 as well as baskets, to hold parts together and be ornamental. Four 



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-Ornamental 

 shields. 



KNOTWl IRK 



a See Stokes, in Mem. Bernice l'aualii Bishop .Museum. II. pp. 1iC>-l<;-_!. 



