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of two parallel sticks or ropes (fig. 209 A. a, 6) fixed either to up- 
rights in the ground or to the walls of the house, etc., the distance 
which separates them varying with the length of article about to be 
manufactured. The hammock itself, practically all warp, is com- 
posed of one continuous piece of sensoro twine, which, after being 
rolled up into a tight ball, is unwound into its own shuttle (ekobo), 
attached to what is, in fact, a “needle” formed of a thick piece of 
kuraua or ite string (B,7). The shuttle is made of a series of clove 
hitches, one above the other, which are respectively slipped off the 
top of the “needle,” according as more and more twine is brought 
Fig. 209.—Manufacture of the ite (sensoro) hammock of the Warrau. 
into requisition. A commencement is made on the extreme right, 
where the thread is tied on to the frame (A, c¢). From here it passes 
over both sticks so as to form the first four warps (constituting the 
hammock edge), these being next fixed in position by winding them 
together spirally with a varying number of coils until the left-hand 
stick is again reached, whence the string stretches back direct to the 
right-hand one. Passing now from right to left, the previous warp 
is locked into the coils of the spiral inclosing the hammock edge, 
until the left stick is reached, whence it runs again direct to the 
right one; leaving the latter, the thread on its return passage to 
the left is coiled around the two previous warps. The whole process 
