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manufacture will vary with the purposes for which it is ultimately 
intended. With the Pomeroon Arawak, the operator has to be in- 
formed of the name of the particular kind required, the different 
names of the completed article depending for the most part upon the 
particular fish which, when used as a line, it will be employed in 
catching. These are the hokoro, imiri, korasso, huri, etc., not all of 
which I have so far had opportunities of getting identified, the twine 
being indicated by this name and the suffix -arig. The variations 
in technique are mainly due to the proximal ends of the fiber shreds 
being so much greater, comparatively speaking, than the distal, and it 
is to obviate this inequality that the methods about to be described 
are employed. As a preliminary it may be noted that all these twines 
are formed by a down-and- -up rolling on the thigh, leg, or even the 
breast (ARW, 208), which gives rise to a right-to-left spiral. 
66. The hokoro-aring (pl. 15 A) is the finest of all the kuraua 
twines, being made up of a thickness of two fibershreds. These (a, b) 
are placed side by side but with their opposite ends together so as to 
insure uniform thickness throughout. The rolling upon the thigh— 
once downand onceup—is commenced at about the outer third of either 
extremity, and the shorter end completed into twine. The reason for 
not making a commencement with the rolling at the actual extremity 
is that the movements here with a thick and a thin fiber would not be 
regular. The portion of completed twine next changes hands, and 
the rolling is started again from the point of commencement so as to 
complete the remainder; when the extremity is approached two new 
fiber shreds (c, d) are successively rolled into it (as described in the case 
of the ite), but care has to be taken that as each is inserted the distal 
and proximal ends of the two original fiber shreds are connected with 
the new proximal and distal ones, respectively. When completed, the 
line will thus be just about double the length of a fiber shred. The 
oradiro-aring is manufactured in identical manner, and only differs 
from it in that it is about three times as long. 
67. The next thicker kuraua twine is the imirl-aring (B). A 
loose strand is made of two, three, or four fiber shreds (a, a, a), 
similar ends together, and rolled as a whole a few times down and 
up, so as to give comparative cohesion. Another loose strand, of 
an identical number of shreds (b, 6, 6), is similarly manufactured, 
and laid upon the previous one, but with opposite ends together. 
Commencing with the center of the two superimposed strands, they 
are now rolled into twine, the usual once-down and once-up move- 
ment being continued until the extremity is reached. This done, 
the whole is turned round, rolling recommenced at the middle, and 
the other half made into twine. The completed article (c) is thus 
limited to the length of one fiber shred. 
68. The korasso-aring (C), used for spring hooks as well as for 
lines, is made of four bundles (az, bz, ex, dx) of fiber shreds, each 
