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A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TKOAXO. 



the sides, so as to retain the strips in position. A kind of hand hackle is 

 then used, as shown in Fig. 31, to slit them to the propei* fineness. After 

 some process not given, we next find the material rolled into a ball. The 

 next process, tliat of twist- 

 ing into the rope or cord, 

 is represented in Fig. 32. 

 A few feet having been 

 twisted by hand, the end 

 is fastened to a little tree 

 Yj^. ;;j or stump, the ball of ma- fig. 33. 



terial is placed in a vessel or on a stool, while by means of a spatula-shaped 

 instrument, doubtless of wood, the twisting is carried on. It is probable 

 the implement is used simply to turn tlie ball, while the person at work 

 gradually moves backward. 



The idols, while in the process of manufacture, are usually represented 

 by the heads only; those not yet painted or ornamented, without any other 

 lines than those necessary to show the parts or organs, as in Fig. 33, which 

 shows also the method of carving (see Plate XV*) ; those which are painted 



or ornamented (Fig. 34). 

 One of the implements 

 used by them in carving 

 their wooden images, 1 

 judge from its form, as 

 shown in Fig. 35, was me- 

 tallic. 



!■''«■ ^^- Cloth is usually indi- 



cated by cross-hatching, as shown in the dresses of the females on Plates 

 XVIIP, XIX*, and XX*; rain and falling water by slender, usually Avaved 

 blue lines, as on Plates XXIV-XXVII. In the third division of Plate 

 XX* the lines are blue, but not waved. Blood is shown by slender, 

 waved red lines, as in the upper division of Plates XXII and XVIII*. 



A utensil or implement is represented on Plates XXI* and XXII* by 

 a figure similar to our Fig. 36, the lower end always black, as shown in the 

 figure. It was lield Ijy the middle or circular portion, the fingers of the 



