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3224 323^ 



50 Mat and Basket Weaz'iiig. 



to the most complete account known to me, that of Prof. Dr. Augustin Kramer;"^ but for 

 the technic of the mat mak- 

 ing I shall take the liberty 

 of translating from this in- 

 teresting paper. As the or- 

 thography- of the names of 

 the mats and their parts 

 seems wholly nnsettled, 

 even German writers not 

 agreeing among them- 

 selves, we may pass over 

 the native names and their 

 etymology. The illustra- 

 tions given here of these 

 mats are all from the Bishop 

 Museum collecT;ion, except 

 Plate V, which is made from 

 a large mat long used as a 

 table cover by the writer, 

 who has thus had an oppor- 

 tunity to test the durability 

 of these admirable mats. 

 Nearly all here figured differ 

 more or less from those fig- 

 ured b\- Dr. Kramer, and 

 many of them are of con- 

 siderable age. 



I translate freely from 

 Dr. Kramer, omitting much 

 of the philological matter 

 as, however interesting and 

 valuable, foreign to our 

 present purpose. 



"Among the produc- 



•* FIG- 53- GKUUP OF MAKSIIALI^ ISLANDS MATS. 



tions of the Marshall Islanders doubtless the mats used for clothing take the first 

 place The.se were made freehand without apparatus or loom, only a long pointed 



"Die Ornamentik der KleidmaUcii und der Tatauieruiig auf den Marshallinseln iiebst technologischen, philolo- 

 gischeti und ethnologischen Notizen. .A.rchiv fiir Anthropologie, Neue Folge, Band II, Heft i. Braunschweig, 1904. 



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