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the loop, replace it in its original position (EK). Next tighten the 
loop by pulling on the strand (Ff, G); now thread 4 (H), and manipu- 
late it exactly as has been done with 2 (JK). When this is com- 
pleted do the same with 3 (L), and finally repeat the process with 1. 
The whole procedure is again gone through as before, and so the 
band is gradually formed at the back of all four needles, where, as it 
becomes longer and longer, it hangs over and behind the left fore- 
finger. To describe the whole manufacture shortly, it is but a repeti- 
tion over and over again of the following four processes: 
Pass cotton in front of needle 1 and thread needle 2. 
Pass cotton in front of needle 3 and thread needle 4, 
Pass cotton in front of needle 4 and thread needle 3. 
Pass cotton in front of needle 2 and thread needle 1. 
52. With six rounded split-eye needles (pl. 10 B).—Similar bands, 
made with six needles (fig. 23 M), are also found among the Patamona, 
and, like the preceding, are 
manufactured both by men and 
women. A commencement is 
made with seven horizontal 
rows of strand and the thread- 
ing of needle 5 as in the dia- 
gram. Shortly described, the 
whole procedure is a repetition 
of the following six manipula- 
tions: 
Pass cotton in front of needle 6 and 
thread needle 5. 
Pass cotton in front of needle 4 and 
thread needle 3. 
Pass cotton in front of needle 2 and 
thread needle 1. 
Pass cotton in front of needle | and 
thread needle 2. 
Pass cotton in front of needle 3 and 
thread needle 4. 
Pass cotton in front of needle 5 and 
thread needle 6. 
53. With two long sticks.— 
Knitting. The Carib and Ma- Fie. 23.—Cotton-band making; with four (A-L) and 
‘ six (MM) rounded split-eye needles. 
kusi manufacture a cotton cord 
not only for tying around the waist to support the ‘‘lap,’’ but 
also for making a handle to the club (pl. 39, A, B), whereby it 
is slung onto the wrist. It is made by women. Two lengths 
(pl. 11 A, a, 6), of the smooth ‘‘arrow reed”’ (the plant used for 
making arrows from) are loosely tied at one extremity, their 
other being held vertically between the left thumb and first joint 
of the forefinger; in the diagram these sticks are represented 
as much shortened. A piece of cotton from a cotton ball is next 
