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to be the same everywhere. Such a bag, dari, half finished, which was forvvarded to me 

 bv Mr. T- VAN DlSSEL, officiai of the Netherl. Indian Government at Fak Fak, and illustrated 

 on PI. XXI, fig. 9 on the scale of '/ , is set up by hand beginning at the border, and to 

 this the body of the bag is formed, one row after the other, ail of them closed at a corres- 

 ponding place of the circumference by a knot; see in the fig. at the bottom, to the right. 

 The third row is hère started, and in the direction opposed to the hand of a clock, advanced 

 to a point at the bottom, to the left. 



By applying so-called "letting-ou ts" (which are always wanting in the women's 

 bags), principally in Connecting the third with the second row, the bag becomes much wider 

 towards the bottom. On another dari, from the same source, about the same way of working 

 has been applied; ail the rows on the vertical back margin of the bag (supposing this being 

 suspended from the left shoulder, the coloured surface outside), being closed by knots. 



Something similar can be noticed on bag N°. 632 of Oinâke, both front as well as 

 back surface consisting of horizontal rows, of which the threads end at the margins, where 

 they are tied together, whilst the ends hang down like long, ornamental fringes. At 

 the bottom of this bag the stitches of front and back surface do not join each other either, 

 in contrast to the X os . 630, 631, 633 and the dari of Fak Fak, but the connection is made 

 by loops of a continuons cord. Bags of this construction appear to be scarce; in the collec- 

 tions at Leyden, Amsterdam and Utrecht I found nothing similar. To this class also belongs 

 bag N°. 633 (PI. XX, fig. 1) obtained at Tobâdi, but made originally at Tarawài, which, in 

 shape and ornament betrays its more eastern origin. It belongs to the kind which BlRO [1899, 

 32, PI. XII, fig. 2] describes as "bags ornamented with Nassa", the appendices however, and 

 this is the case with ail thèse bags, are not worked with the simple "figure eight" stitch, but 

 as per fig. 43. The greater part of thèse coarse men's bags are plain, but N°. 633 forms an 

 exception, as well as some of the dari, along the bottom of which 

 there is an ornament made out of a cord with the stitch of 

 fig. 5, by which, moreover, small, coloured calico tassels may 

 be suspended. 



The composite "figure eight" stitch, is another 

 type, represented in fig. 116, often used in H. B. and sur- 

 roundings for men's bags of similar size or smaller; it closely 

 resembles the previous one, but the cord of each stitch runs in 

 its upper as well as in its lower loop, through t wo stitches of the 

 higher and lower row respectively. The arrangement of the 

 stitches thereby becomes différent, they also reach further into 

 each other, and consequently a doser fabric is obtained. The col- Fig - " 6 \ Composite "figure eight" 



L J stitch for men s bags, etc. 



lection contains four (N os . 634 — 637 ; PL XX, fig. 4) of thèse 



bags, ail square, therefore, without "letting-outs", besides two (N os . 647 — 648) which are still 

 being made, showing that thèse bags are started at the bottom. For this purpose a rope 

 is stretched along and fastened to the ends of a wooden lath, with N°. 647 a pièce of white 

 wood, with N°. 648 (PI. XXI, fig. 1) dark brown, nicely carved. Commencing at the right 

 and working towards the left, on this rope the first row of stitches, intended for the back of 

 the bag, is made; at the end of the row a return is made without interruption, now making, 



