no.1631. VOCABULARY OB 1 MALAYSIA* BA8KETW0RE -MASON. 



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technic, as in borders, or ready-made sennit or other braid may be 

 an element in different kinds of weaving. (See figs. 9, 10, 11. L2.) 



Brooms. — Made from fiber of coco palm by basket-making pro- 

 cesses. 



Bumban batu ("bemban," Skeat). — A large tough reed of dark 

 color, growing on the hills of West Borneo. Used much in basket- 

 making. 



Burden basket. — A car- 

 rying basket for heavy 

 loads. Usually support- 

 ed on the body by means 

 of a bark cloth band over 

 the shoulders, like a knap 

 s a c k . Sometimes the 

 band goes across the 

 breast and occasionally 

 across the forehead. The 

 burden baskets are the 

 acme of the maker's art. 



Calamus. — A genus of 

 palms having over 80 

 species, in Asia, some in 

 Australia and A f r i c a. 

 Slender, solid stems, 

 sometimes 1 to 2 inches 

 in diameter, growing to 

 great lengths, clambering 

 among the branches of 

 trees by means of the 

 hooked prickles on the 

 stalks of their pinnate 

 leaves. C. rotdng, C. ru- 

 dentum, C. verus, C. vim- 

 inalis,aiid probably other 

 Indian and Malaysian 

 species ure the source of 

 the largely imported rat- 

 tan canes used for the 

 M'nts of chairs, and in 

 their native countries for cables and ;i variety of other purposes. 

 C. montanus is twisted into suspension bridges over the river Sikkim. 

 C. scipiomim is the thicker Malacca cane, imported from Singapore for 

 walking sticks, and C. avstralis is the Loya cane, from Australia. 



In the Abbott collections its versatility seems to have no limit. A 

 basket with no rattan in its make-up is a rarity. Iloopwork, footing, 



Fig. 8. Bottom of globular wickbb basket. 



