﻿Vol.2] 
  THE 
  ARAUCANIANS 
  — 
  COOPER 
  715 
  

  

  tuted. 
  Dog-hair 
  weaving 
  was 
  early 
  reported 
  (Goicueta, 
  1852, 
  p. 
  96) 
  

   among 
  the 
  Chono, 
  but 
  not 
  among 
  the 
  Mapuche-Huilliche. 
  The 
  

   Chilotans 
  made 
  mantles 
  from 
  the 
  bark 
  of 
  Aristotelia 
  maqui, 
  woven 
  

   in 
  some 
  manner 
  (Rosales, 
  1877-78, 
  1:224). 
  Cotton 
  weaving 
  was 
  

   absent. 
  Spinning 
  and 
  weaving 
  were 
  women's 
  work. 
  

  

  Wool, 
  after 
  being 
  sheared, 
  washed, 
  dried, 
  and 
  combed, 
  was 
  spun 
  

   od 
  a 
  wooden 
  spindle, 
  pointed 
  at 
  both 
  ends. 
  The 
  wool 
  was 
  wound 
  

  

  Figure 
  76. 
  — 
  Pilua 
  carrying 
  bag. 
  Detail 
  of 
  the 
  side-wall 
  of 
  the 
  bag. 
  (After 
  

   Claude 
  Joseph, 
  1931, 
  fig. 
  45.) 
  

  

  round 
  the 
  left 
  arm, 
  its 
  end 
  twisted 
  with 
  the 
  thumb 
  and 
  index 
  finger 
  

   of 
  the 
  right 
  hand 
  and 
  fastened 
  to 
  the 
  spindle, 
  and 
  the 
  spindle 
  was 
  

   also 
  twirled 
  with 
  the 
  thumb 
  and 
  index 
  finger 
  of 
  the 
  right 
  hand. 
  

  

  For 
  weaving 
  (fig. 
  77; 
  pi. 
  156, 
  top, 
  right) 
  a 
  two-barred 
  loom 
  (witral) 
  

   was 
  used, 
  usually 
  vertical 
  for 
  larger 
  pieces 
  of 
  cloth, 
  but 
  stretched 
  

   on 
  the 
  ground 
  horizontally 
  for 
  belts 
  and 
  fillets. 
  Molina 
  (1901, 
  p. 
  122) 
  

   mentions 
  a 
  second 
  kind 
  of 
  loom, 
  "not 
  very 
  unlike 
  that 
  used 
  in 
  Europe," 
  

   but 
  gives 
  no 
  other 
  details. 
  

  

  The 
  woven 
  products 
  were 
  used 
  mainly 
  as 
  clothing 
  and 
  adornment, 
  

   but 
  also 
  as 
  bedclothes 
  and 
  saddle-blankets. 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  products 
  

  

  