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473. Whereas in the cotton hammocks already described the bars 
(wefts) are distinct one from the other, there is another series of 
cotton hammocks where they are continuous. For instance, at the 
present time, the Atorai manufacture hammocks of from one to six 
wefts (fig. 207) passing forward and backward across the warp. 
That with three wefts is fairly common, but neither this nor the others 
similar to it are made for trade and barter—there is too much work 
in them (JO). They are all woven 
with the long flat shuttle (sec. 471). 
I am also giving the pattern with 
two continuous weft strands, as made 
by the old Makusi (fig. 207), whose 
men used to weave them. Jimmy, 
the head of Inongkong village, at 
the back of Toka, upper Rupununi, ric. 207—Pattern of cotton ham- 
who had been taught by his father, aie BSG eS ian 
worked it for me. 
474, But instead of two wefts that constitute a bar running to- 
gether forward and backward across the warp, continuity of bar may 
be effected by running each of the two wefts from opposite sides of 
the warp and crossing them in transit. Such cotton hammocks I saw 
with the Makusi on the Brazilian side of the Ireng River. They 
receive them in barter for beads from tribes, so they told me, living 
farther to the westward. Their construction, though not witnessed 
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Fic. 208.—Cotton hammock made by crossing each of the two strands composing a bar 
(weft) from opposite sides. 
by me, is shown in the diagram (fig. 208). Another peculiarity of 
these hammocks is noticeable in the serial arrangement of the warp 
strings, where the anterior and posterior layers of the front set are 
made up into alternate series of (a) odd and even single threads, as 
has been the case with the hammocks already described, and (6) sin- 
gle and double strings alternately. The former have furthermore 
been stained with a blue coloring matter. 
475. There is a very interesting type of now obsolete cotton ham- 
mock formerly made by the Arawak and Carib that appears to have 
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