no.1631. VOCABULARY OF MALAYSIAN BASKETWORK— MASON. 



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Fig. 12. — Braids in two colors in carrying zone. 



Fig. 11, from Cat. No. 2442G7, U.S.N.M., shows the common open- 

 work of a rattan basket and the insertion in the carrying zone of four 

 rows of twined weaving in twilled, boustrophic technic. 



Fig. 13, from Cat. No. 232630, U.S.N.M., illustrates the strength- 

 ening of the carrying zone by hoops fastened on with cross-wrapping 

 single knots. Above and below the hoops two rows of half hitches 

 over alternate warps are intertwined. 



Figs. 9-12 (Cat. Nos. 244284, 244207. 244286, U.S.N.M.), illus- 

 trate the ingenious 

 ways in which the pi~ .<-*,. 



strengthening tech- 

 nic in the carry- 

 ing zone may, when 

 new duties demand, 

 be braided away 



from the texture to form handles or to become loops about the carry- 

 ing bands. In fig. 10 there are two rows of 3-strand braid which form 

 the loops. In fig. 11 is a compact single 4-strand braid. In fig. 12 

 there are two rows of 4-strand braid. All of these are designed to 

 function in the same way. 



Plate III represents a six-sided carrying basket (Cat. No. 221504, 

 U.S.N.M.) from Pagi Islands, Mentawi Group, west of Sumatra. It 

 shows the smooth pad of bast for the carrier's naked back; the head- 

 band of soft bark for supporting the load; the zone of strong, double 

 hoopwork, to strengthen the basket at its point of greatest strain. In 



other baskets there 

 is a great diversity 

 of expedients to ac- 

 complish this end. 

 In this specimen 

 no sling of split 

 passes from the 

 carrying loops to 

 be knotted under 

 the bottom, that strain being relieved by the six uprights bounding 

 the sides and brought together to form the foot. This is a tine speci- 

 men of hexagon weave and of a hoopwork border. 



Carrying parts, carrying zone — (See Carrying bask< l.) 

 Chain work. — A technic in a single element, resembling chain 

 stitching in needlework. It finds its nearest relative with wrapped 

 weaving. 



Check. — Where two elements cross each other. (See also Decussa- 

 tion.) 



Fig. 13. — Carrying zone strengthened by hoopwork. 



