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takes the place of nails, screws, pegs, etc., in holding the parts to- 

 gether, plays the whole gamut of uniting and decoration. (See Knot.) 



Hook-and-eyework. — An ingenious method of uniting joints and 

 fastening off ends in rattan, specially useful in making hoops and in 

 fixing heavy borders. The rattan is whittled away, like the point of 

 a quill pen, often many inches long, giving also a convenient shoulder. 

 The thin point is drawn through a hole or about a border and caught 

 down on the other side in the textile work. (See Plates II, III. Y. 

 VI, VII.) 



Hoopwork. — The part played by hoops of wood in Malaysian bas- 

 ketwork is of great importance to the student of technology. In 

 America it played a minor part with the Indians, but, on the other 

 side of the Pacific, it entered into the bottom, body, stayings and 

 strengthenings, footing, framework, carrying parts, and covers of 

 baskets. Strictly speaking, a hoop is round, but, in this area, pre- 

 cisely the same technic is so often employed on angular forms that 

 one may be pardoned for speaking of triangular, quadrangular, 

 hexagonal, and octagonal hoops, 

 or of their incurved sides and 

 pinched corners. 



Hoops in the Abbott basket- 

 work are in the whole stems, 

 sliped stems, half stems, splits, 

 strips of different thickness, in 

 rattan or other tough elastic wood, 

 as the exigencies demand. The 

 joinings of the ends may be splic- 

 ing of most kinds known to rae- 



, . iii ii t FlG - -0- — Hexagonal technic with wide 



cnanics, though the hooked splice horizontals. 



of common barrels does not ap- 

 pear. But there are others quite to the manner born, such as hook-and- 

 eye splice, knotted, sewed, and pegged splices. The figures and plates 

 will show how ingenious these practical basket-makers have been in 

 putting their hoops at the right places to strengthen the basket with- 

 out greatly increasing the weight ; in combining angular bottoms with 

 rounded bodies; in providing stable attachments for the loops, knot- 

 work, strengthenings, and headbands of the carrying parts. 



Plate VIII shows several structural and technical characters (Cat. 

 No. 221546, U.S.N.M.) of hoopwork and reveals a diversity in other 

 forms of handiwork worth noticing, such as the square bottom be- 

 coming the rounded body, the mixture of twined and wicker weaving. 

 the strengthening of the texture at the carrying zone, the multiplica- 

 tion of hoops about the border, the shaping, splicing, adjusting, drill- 

 ing and attaching of hoops, the loops and adjustments of the carry- 

 ing band. (See Joinerwork.) 



Horizontal. — Term applied to the level elements in hexagonal and 

 other technic lying in three or more directions. 



