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important part, as will subsequently be shown, in the stability of 
the fan. The next process is the manufacture of the gables (C), a 
start being made at the upper angle of the foundation and “ break- 
ing” one strand after another, each being started on its journey by 
passing under two. This goes on until the lowermost strands of the 
diamond (e, /) are reached, the latter being left free and projecting. 
The wings are now formed by similar procedure (D), the second 
wing in the course of manufacture completing the triangular sub- 
structure (¢). The base level to which the wings are built depends 
upon the caprice of the maker, The two projecting strands, which 
might almost be regarded as diagonals, are next bent back on to and 
along themselves in and between the strands through which they 
have already passed; they thus serve to tighten up the plaits and 
act as stays. Indeed, it is with the same object that the last strand 
(/) to be “broken” at the lower corner of the edge of the wing is 
dealt with in similar fashion. ‘There are two methods adopted in 
“finishing off ’—i, e., in preventing the fraying of the lower edge. 
The first and easier (2) is to take up on each face one strand at a 
time, and then, after “breaking,” to pass it under its two immediate 
neighbors and cut it. These cut ends are next covered with the two 
halves of a split wooden pencil, which are laid along the lower edges 
of each side and tightly sewn on to it in three places with waxed 
kuraua fiber. The second method (I) is to insert one extremity of 
a long strip of mamuri (7) into the lower portion of the body of 
the fan and, as it emerges below, to coil it over and around a bundle 
of some three or four strands in front and behind. ‘This process of 
overcasting is continued around the lower edge on both sides of the 
article by taking up a new strand with every turn of the coil and 
cutting off the extreme ends of the projecting strands when the 
bundle composing them appears to be getting too thick and un- 
wieldy. These variations are photographed in figure 91 A and B, 
respectively. C is also a Carib fan, made for trade purposes, but its 
identity of pattern is hidden by the staining of some of the strands 
(WER, 1v). It is true that in the Pomeroon and Moruca River 
areas the Warrau make fans identical with those of the Carib, from 
whom they have probably learned the art. Similar ones are also 
manufactured by Arekuna, Patamona, Oyana (GOR, pl. vin, fig. 5), 
and other tribes. 
376. The manufacture of the Akawai fan (WER, 1v).—The Aka- 
wai fan (fig. 91D) is of a square shape, designed, so far as the 
Pomeroon district is concerned, of a uniform pattern of a series of 
concentric squares, but manufactured on a different principle to all 
the others in that a commencement is made at the left lower corner, 
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