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Hawaiian Nets and Netting. 



PiKO K (Fig. 127). — This is similar in constru(5lion to the last, but with the 

 outer loops far apart, and the spaces on the ring between wound with the ball cord. 

 In Diagram i the cord has been doubled, leaving a loop at b. Then the ball cord is 

 looped at c and at «', the latter being passed around a and through r, and drawn taut. 

 The ball cord is tightly wound around the bend of b for several turns and two loops 

 formed, the second being passed under b and through the first. Diagram 2 shows the 

 method of fastening the ring, 

 which being done, the ball 

 cord c and end cord a are com- 

 bined to make the first knot 

 of the hanai. This piko con- 

 sists of from fifteen to thirty 

 loops, and is generally very 

 large in diameter. 



Piko L (Fig. 128).— 

 A triple ring is made by doub- 

 ling the end cord at b over the 

 ball cord a and running the 

 former twice around, Diag. i. 

 Then the end cord c is wound 

 round b once and the cords of 

 the ring for about one-quarter 

 its circumference, and is passed 

 back and forth through the 

 ring to form the loops o o, 

 Diag. 2 ; after the last turn 

 e this cord is wound four 

 times around the bases of 00^ Diag. 3, passed through the windings w and around the 

 cords of the ring at /and the winding on the ring continued at^'. It is probable that 

 the piko in the specimen examined was made with a shuttle or a small ball of cord in 

 addition to the large ball, for the amount of this end cord is considerable. Then the 

 ball cord a is looped three times, the beuds being doubled over /; (making six loops 

 at//) and bound with four half hitches by a to make the knot at /'. The base of one 

 of the loops of / is pulled out at /, the ball passed through the bight and / closed 

 by drawing on //. The end cord // returning from the circuit is then bound over k 

 with half hitches and concealed in the hanai which the ball cord a commences with 

 one of the loops of/. 



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