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toward the left of the frame. On completion of the bar a light lath 
or cane is placed to its right, and close to it, between the front and 
back sets of warps and left there. The object of its insertion is to 
facilitate the manipulation of taking up a warp from each set which 
otherwise would be in close apposition and difficult to distinguish, 
and also to get the bar quite straight. As it is the two warps can be 
now picked out easily and quickly by passing the left forefinger 
between them in the interspace between bar and lath, and so hook- 
ing them downward and forward to make the next link in the bar. 
When all the bars are completed the hammock is slipped upward off 
the two posts. The scale lines are then attached to the loops that 
have been around the posts beyond the extreme bars. 
461. Tucum and yauary fiber hammocks are to be seen on the 
branches of the upper Rio Negro. The simpler kinds are apparently 
identical in structure with the cotton Arekuna ones just described, 
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Fic. 195.—Hammock making. Frame of two vertical posts; warp horizontal, weft 
vertical ; each bar (weft) of two threads. 
but they differ in technique. The “frame” consists of a hori- 
zontal bar to each extremity of which a peg is attached, the dis- 
tance between the pegs limiting the length of the hammock. The 
pegs, in fact, correspond with the two vertical posts around which 
the warp of the hammock just described is wound. The weft 
is attached at given distances along the bar, and its ends hang 
free. A long thread, after being strung around both pegs and 
tied, forms the first two warps, which are now looped up through- 
out in the usual way, with the chain twist formed by the two 
weft strings. A second pair of warps is placed in position, and 
these similarly treated. The process is thus continued until the last 
pair of warps is tied, the hammock hanging all the while from the 
