236 G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



N°\ 68 — 73, (PI. I, figs. 22, 23 and 25), but during the short visit I also saw other shapes in 

 the making, which very much resembled the ordinary pot of Kajô Jenbf ; thèse articles are, 

 however, much inferior to those of Humboldt Bay. The clay is prepared beforehand, and cleared 

 of stones in a very unsatisfactory manner, at ail events, once when I saw women manufac- 

 turing a pot, which was nearly fmished, their knocking on the outside, brought to the surface 

 small stones, of ± 4 m. m. in diameter, which had to be picked out and the hollows made 

 again to be filled up. A flat, oval stone (N°. 714, PI. XXV, fig. 2) out of a micaceous sand- 

 stone, plentifully found on the island of Pujo, was held inside, the flat, wooden beater 

 (N°. 715, PI. XXV, fig. 10), knocking on the corresponding spot on the outside surface, in 

 a manner known of elsewhere. I am almost convinced that thèse pots are started in the 

 way mentioned by Pratt [1906, 687] of the Motu women: "seize a lump of clay with both 

 hands, and make a hole large enough to get the right hand in", and not by beating together 

 clay rings, as mentioned by Haddon [1894, 223] of Teste Island; — rough pots, shaped 

 inside a palm leaf basket, and then baked, as reported by PARKINSON [1900, 38] of Berlin 

 Harbour, I hâve not met with anywhere. 



Although until now no w e a v i n g i n d u s t r y has been described of New Guinea, still 

 some articles are found, which may be placed under that heading. 



It is Braam MORRIS [1885, 90] who mentions woven petticoats of the married 

 women of Tanah Merah Bay, and DE CLERCQ (De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 49, N°. 260 

 and N°. 261, PL XIII, figs. 4 and 5]) who collected a cloth of Anus and Jamna, worn by 

 women in front and on the back like a "sarong"; according to HoRST [1889, 245], however, 

 they are worn like aprons (see fig. 40, the woman on the left), and obtained from the main- 

 land. De CLERCQ and HORST probably mean the same objects, of which I myself received 

 a spécimen as a présent from a Netherlands naval officer, collected on the same part of the 

 Netherl. north coast. I take the material used to be loose, narrow palm leaf strips, and the 

 colours are between dark brown and light yellowish brown. The fibres of a strip are not twisted, 

 but in order to keep them together, simple overhand knots hâve been made in ail the strips, 

 at distances of 3 — 5 cm.; the fibres of a strip are lying in the tissue fiât alongside each 

 other, like in a narrow, flat ribbon. The threads in this case are lengthened, not as in the 

 carrying bags by twisting the fibres together, but by knotting. The composition of the 

 cloth, shows lengthwise running warp-threads, crossed by weft -threads, which return at the 

 side margins, without interruption, forming the selvage of the cloth. As the warp-threads are 

 longer than the length of the tissue, they form at both ends a fringe, ± 16 cm. in length, 

 also mentioned by DE CLERCQ. In order to obtain an equal length of the fringe, some of 

 the strips are lengthened by knotting. The tissue is fairly close and shows, in conséquence 

 of double stripes of the dark colour, introduced as well in the weft- as in the warp-threads, 

 a design of large squares, which is crossed by a check of the lighter colour. At each of the 

 four corners a knot is laid with some warp- (fringe) threads, inside which the end of the 

 weft-thread is placed and in this way ravelling is prevented. Nothing is known of any weaving 

 instrument for the manufacture of the above described cloth; on the other hand it can hardly 

 be imagined that the whole of it can be made by hand. 



It is rather remarkable that the first real tissues of inland make, used for clothing, 

 are met with in Papua Tàlandjang, the land of the naked Papuan. 



