NO. 1666. 



BASKETRY BOLO CASE— MASON. 



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hexagonal weaving (tig. 3). The dextral and the sinistral elements are 

 drawn through holes in the upper border of the footing, and the 

 meshes are each large 

 enough to allow the pas- 

 sage of six elements of 

 the outer basket, two from 

 each of the three direc- 

 tions — vertical, right, and 

 left (tig. 4). Just above 

 these holes in the footing 

 the first horizontal split 

 of the inner basket, or 

 foundation, serves as a 

 starting point of the outer 

 basket (tig. 3). The bam- 

 boo splits of the outer 

 series are doubled about 

 this one, half of each split 

 passing up verticalh' and 

 the other half either to 

 the right or to the left, 

 and all woven in and out 

 through the hexagonal 

 meshes (tig. 4). The ef- 

 fect of this double weaving is to produce an almost compact technic, 

 with the splits of the inner basket nearly concealed. 



The technic of the bor- 

 der is the most interesting 

 of all, owing to its com- 

 plexity (iigs. 1, 2, and 5). 

 It is founded on hoops 

 and is in two sections, the 

 upper and the lower. The 

 former is of flat hoops 

 surmounted by a smaller 

 round hoop, the inner 

 ones being covered in lace 

 work of rattan splits (fig. 

 5, 'I and h). These laced 

 hoops are fitted on the 

 top of the body and fas- 

 tened, as follows, by what 

 constitutes the second por- 

 tion of the border: Stout hoops form the inwale and the outwale of 

 this portion, and three series of Malay knots unite them with the 



Fk;. 3.— Inside op .Tacanese bolo case, showing hexagon 

 weave. the method of its attachment, and the double 

 function (if the footing. 



Fig. 4.— Outer technic of Jacanese bolo case, showing 

 HOW the elements are bent, inclined, and attached to 



the HEXAGONAL WEAVING. NOTE SPECIALLY HOW THE 

 SPLITS GO IN PAIRS, THE FLUKES ALTERNATELY DIVERGING 

 right and left, as in an anchor, then CROSSING EACH 

 OTHER. 



