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77//: .\Mi:i{/c.\\ MrsijM joiuxal 



pay U:v \\'f" lie had a Ict'l-ouI-tVrliim if lie fniiiKl imtliiim lliat rcj)rcs('iitcil 

 hiiiiscir. I'lit if lie ((HiM liiild II]) jusT one article and say, " Kanak " ( iiiiiicj 

 or "M\ wife made it," li<' would .u'i\"c a radiant smile and sit down content. 

 Ai;"ain, tliere was an a])|).'al to t lie conser\ at i\ <• tendencies of tlie jieople. 

 More than one thon.uht fnl liauolio e\])resse(l a li\('ly satisfaction at the 

 pfospcct of a ureat Hauoho collection hein*,' careriilly kept in an American 

 museum fore\cr. When the news s|)read there awakene(| a new feclini^ 

 toward my woi'k. ()ne old woman -c'-i-elly hrouiiht me a I'arc enihfoidcrcd 



scarf, an hcirlociii that she 

 lian(lle(| tenderly, for her 

 motlx'r had worn it to hold 

 the baby on her hip, and she 

 said that it had larried many, 

 babies, that few old women 

 remembered how to do that 

 sort of needlework, and that 

 she would iie\er let it ^o, ex- 

 eei)t that it mifiht always be 

 with the rest of the Hagobo 

 things in America. 



That piece of (>niiir(jidery 

 was done under conditions 

 hard to compreliend. Dur- 

 ing the day liagobo women 

 ha\-e littU' time for fancy 

 stitching, with all the cook- 

 ing and tile long chmb; to the 

 ri\-er for water and the work 

 of the loom — for the weaA-ing 

 nuist be done by chiylight, as 

 no nati\"e lamj) can illumine 

 the floor space eo\ered by the 

 hand loom. Hut when dark- 

 ness falls sewing and em- 

 broidery can be done. A 

 girl or yovmg man fixes a 

 leaf-w rai)ped resin torcli in 



the cleft end of a forked 

 A scarf worn over tlie right shoulcliT and imdir I he 

 left arm as a hammock in which a child is ranitd on brancll that stands on the 

 tlie mother's liip. This i)articular specimen is of fine floor •ind serves "is the nati\'e 

 old embroidery, now almost a lost art among the 

 Bagobo eandelabrnm. The torch is 



