Samoan Fans. 



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and the leaves themselves serve for handle; in the Samoan the weave is on a trellis, as 

 it were, and the strands are very narrow, the handle is of wood braided in afterwards; 

 it is a good substantial form. The curious way in which the edge strands are bent to 

 cover the ends of other strands is shown in Fig. 14. DireAly under this fan in the 

 previous figure is one of considerble surface ending in a square trellis border, also 

 shown in the figure of enlargements on the left. The handle is carved, as was generally 



Fig. 14. ENLARGED Fans to show structure. 



the case in the better class of fans in the Society and Hervey Ids., and rather clumsily 

 inserted, the ends of the central strands being bound to the shaft by a fine cord of 

 human hair, that popular ornament in the Pacific. 



In No. 2139, on the right of the triangular fan (Fig. 13), is a horseshoe-shaped 

 skeleton fan which raises more wind than its open construdlion would promise. For 

 handle the strands are bound together with sennit, and the general construdlion is shown 

 on the right side of Fig. 14. On the other side of Fig. 13 is a pointed form, perhaps 

 more common than the round. The other forms in the illustration need no especial 

 description. As in almost all Pacific groups the modern manufac^lure shows a marked 



