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two "taking-ins" occur. The bottom is again closed as in fig. 118; the ornamentation with cord 

 fringe, etc. is however seldom wanting; when at the bottom, it is tied on to the continuous 

 string, which closes the bag. With N°. 644 (PI. XXI, fig. 2) of Ifâr the opening is closed 

 with one of the dépendent small bits of twine; perhaps the owner kept valuable beads in it. 

 Small bags, made with the stitch of fig. 117, like several spécimens in the Berlin Muséum, 

 originally from the Ramu Valley and elsewhere, are sometimes used to put amulets in. 



The fourth kind of stitch is found in N°. 645 (PI. XXI, fig. 10) of Liki. The 

 sling of this breast bag, too short (42 cm.) to pass over the head, was fastened to a separate 

 neckstring. The stitch (see fig. 52) consists of a loop, twisted like the previous one; however, 

 each lower loop being suspended from two loops of a higher row, the web gets a twilled 

 appearance. Similar bags, found in Geelvink Bay, are in the collections of Amsterdam (Ser. 8, 

 N°. 29; Ser. 9, N°. 6) and Rotterdam (N os . 6229 and 6701). I had no opportunity to watch 

 the manufacture of this very close web, but the Leyden Muséum contains a bag (Ser. 16, 

 N°. 542) from Netherl. N. G., made with the same stitch and in the spiral rows of which a 

 yellow strip of leaf is entwined, which naturally shows the saine spiral course. The con- 

 clusion is easily arrived at, that in this case the same technique is followed as demonstrated 

 by the illustration of BlRO. 



The bag of Liki really consists of two, each worked separately in the round, but 

 they hâve the continuous border in common; both bottoms are closed with one continuous 



string, according to the pattern of fig. 

 121, the same in principle as that of 

 fig. 61, and little différent from fig. 122. 



Fig. 121. Closing the bottom of bag N c . 645. 



Fig. 122. Border of bags which are made 

 with the stitch of figs. 52 and 117. 



This same border occurs on a small men's bag of the collection, N°. 646 of Nimbûran, 

 which, as an exception to the rule, is entirely made with the "figure eight" stitch. 



Four patterns of borders may be distinguished, that of fig. 43 occurring by 

 far the most frequently. To begin with, on ail the small bags (with the exception of N°. 645, 

 of Liki) and besides on most of the larger bags. The geographical distribution may be, to 

 some extent, judged by its occurrence at Kaptiau, as well as in Humboldt Bay, on Lake 

 Sentâni and in Berlin Harbour. Of 16 bags of the collection, 12 show this pattern and it is 

 therefore to be regretted, that the System of the manufacture has remained unknown. Related 

 to this pattern, in fact a doubling of the same, is the pattern of fig. 50, found in the border 

 of bag N°. 637 of Ingrâs (see also N°. 404, PI. XVI, fig. 3). 



