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finished. If the bar be now examined, it will be recognized that 
while in pattern it is identical with that described in preceding series 
(secs. 462-464), in technique it is entirely different. Bar upon bar 
thus comes to be woven, each intervening space being carefully meas- 
ured by means of thin rectangular wooden lamine (pl. 127 B) slipped 
here and there in between the warp strings. These lamine (dadar- 
alib=Wapishana, to tighten up) are cut to an exactly similar size and 
are usually threaded, some four or five together in a string (of a 
length a little greater than the 
12945678910 width of the warp) passing 
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ters. On completion of a bar they 
will be inserted here and there, 
resting on its edge, their upper 
limit regulating the distance on 
which the level, removed from be- 
low, has now to be refixed so as to 
insure the next bar being exactly 
parallel. As soon as the upper 
crossbeam is reached the wedges on 
either side of it are removed and 
the vertical height of the frame 
slightly reduced. This now allows 
of the whole front set of warps 
4 being rolled downward upon itself 
g or revolved, as it were, over both 
horizontal beams until the last 
completed bar comes down to 
about the same level on which the 
i) first one was made, and what was 
previously the back set of warps 
Fic. 201—Hammock making. Frame of cgmes to be the front set. The 
two horizontal timbers. Division of : 
front set of warps into an anterior wedges are next reinserted and 
and posterior layer, with the permanent the work resumed as before, bar 
ae be upon bar, until the article is fin- 
ished. Finally, by slipping out the headpiece, the hammock is re- 
moved bodily from the frame. These hammocks are to be seen 
among Wapishana and Makusi. 
467. In those cases where the front set of warps is split into an 
anterior and posterior layer the method of procedure is more com- 
plicated. I will again consider that the headpiece has been attached 
to the back set of warps, bearing in mind that, so far as the actual 
weaving is concerned, it is quite immaterial upon which set. it has 
been fixed, because the whole warp, as has been already mentioned, 
can be rolled or revolved from the front to the back as desired. The 
