110 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS * [ErH. ANN, 38 
Arawak—viz, nahalehi toburiko-kwanna, i. e., paddle; to knock, hit, 
ete.] It is next raised a little distance and turned on the flat so as 
to enlarge the front-to-back interspace between the warp con- 
stituents (D), thus rendering the insertion of the first stretch of 
weft (w) from left to right a comparatively easy matter. The 
beater is now turned on its edge again, pressed and rammed down 
onto the weft, and drawn aside, only to be reinserted into the warp 
in and out alternately among the strings, but with this difference, 
that those threads which were all in front of it before are now behind. 
After pressure, etc., with its edge down, the presser is again raised 
and turned on the flat, so as to enable the second line of weft to be 
formed by inserting it in between from right to left, and then ram- 
ming down as before. The process is thus repeated again and again 
by inserting the weft from alternate sides (E) along the passage 
made for it by the beater between the constituents of the warp, 
until such time as the requisite length of band is obtained, when 
thé weft is finally tied onto one edge of the warp. Removed from 
the crosspieces, each of the loops at top and bottom (1. e., through 
which the crosspieces passed) is rolled separately into a tassel (F). 
A short length of band thus ‘‘finished off’? may be used as an anklet, 
being secured to the limb by tying the two series of tassels together; 
it is worn by both men and women, the former, however, using nar- 
rower ones (sec. 552). Waist bands (sec. 548) are made on a similar 
plan, but of course with a much longer framework (WER, m1). 
Instead of making the cotton band with a weft passing under and 
_over a single warp, it may pass under and over two at a time, as in 
the cotton fillets of the hats of the Makusi and other tribes (sec. 518). 
56. A somewhat peculiar kind of cotton work, for which I know 
of no adequate term, has been met in the manufacture of certain 
baby slings (Ch. XX) and some fringed apron belts (sec. 548; pl. 
154 B; fig.231). In the former case I have supplied and figured the 
necessary details of the process which for the present I am describing 
as “looping on a frame,” or ‘frame looping.” 
