3. A Loom used by the Gaodar (Herdsmen) of Seistan. 
By N. Annanpate, D.Sc., F.A.S.B. 
(With Plates I—II.) 
The loom here described was seen in use in a Gaodar 
S. W. Kemp and myself in December, 1918. The figure is 
reproduced from a drawing based on photographs taken for 
the purpose by Mr. Kemp. I have to thank Mr. H. G. Graves 
for much assistance in drawing up the description; the techni- 
cal terms in which are those employed by Ling Roth, Journ. 
sticks are tied together above ; two of the legs are inserted into 
the ground one on each side of the warp near its middle and 
the other near the warp-beam in front but also at one side. 
As the weaving proceeds the position of the tripod must be 
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w It is also lashed to the two hinder legs of the tripod in 
such a way as to be practically immovable. A shorter stick (e) 
rests on the upper suspender at right angles and supports the 
shed-stick (/) and heddle-rod (g), to which it is fastened, at one 
end to each, by ropes about three feet long. It is freely mov- 
able backwards and forwards, and when the end near the 
cloth-beam is pulled down the shed-stick is raised and the 
odd and even threads separated; when it is pushed up the 
heddle-rod pulls the odd threads (i) up between the even 
threads of the warp (h). Both the shed-stick and the heddle- 
rod are roughly-shaped tamarisk. twigs between two and a half 
and three feet long, each a little longer than the width of the 
warp. The odd threads are fastened to the heddle-rod 
between the even threads by separate loops of wool, one for 
each thread, and the loops are fixed to a transverse thread 
