Piko and Ha 



iiai. 



121 



tvirning aty. This knot can be and probabl}' was made in a simpler wa}'. With the 

 ball cordy looped through _^ at //, the loop / is made leaving a large slack at w and ;// 

 then this slack is tightly wound around g and / the required number of times, the 

 balance of the slack being taken in by drawing on /. Reference should be made to the 

 knot in Hanai D in Fig. 137. 



Piko O (Figs. 132 and 133 ). — In Diagram i, after doubling the cord at^ make 

 the loops /;, ^/ and y^ with the ball cord, leaving enoixgh slack. Then lay the ball 

 cord e along the bends of the loops and wind the slack c a few times around the whole. 

 Then loop the cord a g at h and continue winding with c. When the slack of c is 



FIG. 119. PIKO F. 



taken up by ^, the knot .i", Diag. 2, will serve to begin the piko, and the details of the 

 regular knot are shown in the same diagram. X being completed, with the ball 

 cord e pass the loop b' through d leaving slack at //', and over // laj* / and the loop d\ 

 leaving another slack at c . Then c is bound around all the cords on a level with d^ 

 and as the binding proceeds, the slack // is divided into two loops, //' //', Diag. 3, and 

 held in place by c . Sometimes the ball cord c is not laid along d\ but is carried for- 

 ward outside F. In such cases this piko differs from Piko N only in the additional 

 loops // //' projecting from the side. Fig. 132 was drawn with the details in an upright 

 position. Fig. 133 shows this piko, which in the specimen photographed was small. 



Hanai. — The hanai begins where the last loop of the piko was made. 



Hanai A (Figs. 114 and 118). — This is the simple fisherman's knot, known by 

 natives as /v?, //w//', etc., as shown by g g in the figures. 



