no.1631. VOCABULARY OF MALAYSIAN BASKETWORK— MASON. 



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stand alone. Its capacity is almost that of half a flour barrel. Every- 

 where proportion and beauty are united with strength and utility. 



Frap. — To bind parts of a basket together, in order to strengthen 

 the structure. 



Furcated. — Said of the elements of basketry that arc intentionally 

 and symmetrically split a part of their length. The rattan lends it- 

 self willingly to such treatment. 



Fyke. — An ever-set, detaining trap; a cage-pound for fish. (See 

 Hugh M. Smith on The Fyke Nets, etc.) 



Grommet. — A ring of stem or split made by crossing it mid then 

 laying or twisting the long end round the ring three times and neatly 

 tucking in the end. 



Handle. — Part of basket employed in 

 carrying it in the hands. This is not 

 common. In going through the jungle 

 the hands are needed for other pur- 

 poses. The basket is supported from 

 the belt, the breast, the shoulders, or 

 from the front of the head. Modern 

 influences are creeping in and putting 

 bails of rattan on some specimens. 

 (See Carrying parts.) 



Fig. 17 (Cat. No. 221534, U.S.N.M.) 

 shows the ease with which a long thin 

 split may become a grommet, a loop, 

 a handle. Drawing a would be the 

 coarsest form of loop for suspending a 

 basket or guiding a carrying strap, the 

 split being wrapped a few times back 

 and forth and bound by half hitches. 

 It might be on a border or on an up- 

 right, vertical, or horizontal. Drawings 

 b and c are similar, but more neatly finished. Drawing <1 is in imita- 

 tion of borderwork of the coiled type, the split at the same time form- 

 ing chainstitchwork for a handle. 



Helical coil. — That form of coil that would result from wrapping 

 a wire about a cylinder. This is the method of coiled basket building 

 in America, but it is greatly modified in Malaysia, as will appear in 

 description. 



Hemstitch. — Drawing warps together in groups of two or more and 

 holding them by twined weaving. 



Hens' nests. — Baskets, bag-shape and wide-meshed, for the hens to 

 lav in. hang from the piles under Nicobarese houses. (Kins*-. Anda- 

 mans and Nicobars, p. 18.) 



18. — Plain hexagonal tech- 

 nic and border. 



