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G. A. T. VAN DER SANDE. 



Fig. 61. 2 /,. Cord binding on pubic apron, bag, etc. 



vvhich on the photo's of HAGEN, the ordinary „figure eight" stitch (fig. 9) can be easily 

 recognised, this dress cannot be placed on a line with that of the more closely worked 

 aprons (not bags), to which référence is made hère and vvhich are not used for any 

 other purpose than as a pubic covering. THOMSON [1892, 95] also mentions a small net bag, 

 from nine to twelve inches in length, worn in front as an apron by the native moun- 

 taineers near Mount Victoria. Van DER GOES [1858, 172], however, deliberately states that 



he saw in Humboldt Bay aprons for 



women of very fine knitted or plaited 



network, which were presumably worn 



by visitors from elsewhere; at ail events 



the expédition has not seen anything like 



it in H. B. Neither De CLERCQ nor 



HORST [1889, 217], who both visited 



many places on the north coast of 



Netherl. N. G. and also Papua Taland- 



jang, mentions thèse aprons. The only 



thing known to me, which resembles it, is a girdle ornament in the Berlin Muséum (N°. 2440) 



obtained from Jamna, 30 cm. long and 6 cm. broad, entirely of cord and made with the 



stitch of fig. 52. The strings and straps occurring on the three aprons, are according to the 



pattern of fig. 43. N°. 450 is manufactured according to the pat- 

 tern of fig. 9, which is found distributed throughout New Guinea from 

 west to east and in this case, for this spécial purpose, is made 

 as close as the men's bags, therefore much doser than the well 

 known women's bags (see Chapter V). N°. 451 (PI. XVI, fig. 13) 

 and N°. 452 consist however principally of a kind of stitch which 

 is much less common and illustrated in fig. 52. 



The peculiarity hère occurs, that the turns run to the right 

 and to the left and at the margin the thread passes from a 

 higher turn without interruption to a lower one. How this is done 

 in the case of the apron of Kaptiau (N°. 452), fig. 62 shows, 

 where the passage of turn /; on to turn c, and from turn d on to 

 turn e can be traced; — it goes without saying that at the other 

 Fi<r. 62. Run of threads on the margin of the apron, the passages are from a on to b, and from c 

 margm of pubic apron. on to ^_ -pj le j 00 p at one £ ^ e top corners is festooned according 



to fig. 64. 

 The back apron of Sâwé (N°. 451) which, as far as the top part is concerned con- 

 sista of twelve turns of the „ figure eight" stitch (fig. 9) and besides of turns of the stitch 

 in fig. 52, provided at the upper and lower margin with a binding according to fig. 43, 

 is peculiar. For on a closer inspection it appears that in manufacturing this cloth, two 

 threads are always used at the same time and that the passages at the margins are 

 formed according to two différent methods, which can be each executed in two ways, thus 

 forming according to the run of the thread four différent patterns, illustrated in figs. 63, 

 1, 2, 3, 4. Such passages naturally occur alternately at the left and at the right margin. Why 



