188 G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



The second border pattern is to be found in women's bags (N" s . 627 — 629) as 

 well as in men's bags; in N°. 630 it is fastened as per fig. 61. 



The third pattern has been already met with on women's bags (figs. 114 and 122). 



The fourth pattern, fig. 123, is more complicated; for the sake of greater clearness, 



the bends are drawn very 

 ample, notwithstanding that 

 the outvvard appearance is in 

 / this way somewhat modified. 

 The charm of appearance of 

 this border is principally ob- 



Fig. 123. Border on men's bags. tained b y Superficial bends, 



which lie like a thick, twisted 

 cord (aè) on the surface. N°. 635 of Ingrâs shows this border in two fold breadth, N°. 636 

 of Tobàdi is three fold, whereby thèse bags also show two and three superficial cord-shaped 

 ridges (aè) respectively. Working once round with one thread, the border is only obtained in 

 single breadth. In N°. 635 and N°. 636 therefore, the margin must hâve been worked round 

 two and three times respectively. This beautiful border has, as far as Netherl. N. G. is con- 

 cerned, only been met with until now in Humboldt Bay; without doubt it is made by 

 needle, and, it is theri, as I noticed, not difficult to make. 



The slings ofthe men's bags consist sometimes of a strip of bark, at other times 

 of the single or plural "figure eight" stitch (figs. 9 and 115), but often also of pattern fig. 43. 

 As this pattern produces on a single breadth a narrow sling, it is only found with the small 

 bags, amongst them with N°. 645 of Liki, whilst the larger bag of Tarawâi (N°. 633) has 

 already a sling of double width (fig. 50), and therefore with two relief ridges. For the larger 

 bags, which generally contain heavier weights, a broader sling is used. Finally the sling of 

 bag N°. 639 of Tobâdi is manufactured as per fig. 47, retaining its full breadth in the use, 

 decidedly advantageous for naked shoulders. 



From the foregoing it may be judged to some extent, that in the bags, as FlNSCH 

 [1888 — 93, 205] already noticed, a not unimportant textile artistic skill is laid down, which 

 deserves further comparative study. It would be profitable also to take into account other 

 countries. Thus the simple "figure eight" stitch is also used in the bags of Paraguay and Southern 

 Brazils (Wiener Hof Muséum, N os . 41417 and 3609). On a so-called prince's cap from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Lake Tanganyika (Leyden Muséum, Ser. 387, N°. 30) oblique patches occur of 

 stitches like those of fig. 117. The stitch of fig. 52 also occurs on the small bags ofthe Viti 

 Islands (Wiener Hof Muséum, N°. 3914) only with this différence, that the twist of the loop 

 does amount to 360 . Turned in an opposite direction, the same stitch may be met with on 

 a skull-cap (Leyden Muséum, Ser. 1032, N°. 43) from a district close to Lake Tanganyika. 

 Finally it appeared to me very remarkable, that the beautiful border found in Humboldt Bay 

 (fig. 123), also occurs, with a very slight modification, along the margin of the caps mentioned 

 above. The cord-shaped relief ridge .(aè) is the same with both patterns and where thèse borders 

 hâve been multiplied along the caps, also more of thèse ridges occur. 



The collection contains as N 0b . 649 — 652 (PI. XXI, figs. 5 — 8), four carved wooden 

 laths, as used with N°. 648, to fasten on the bag, sogeri, during the manufacture, and called 



