INDUSTRY. 



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The only weaving frame (N°. 716, PI. XXV, fig. 1), the first mentioned from 

 New Guinea, was met with by the expédition at Tarfia. It is used in the manufacture of 

 brow bands, girdles, armlets, etc., which form the monopoly ofthis village. In its highly primitive 

 form, it represents the loom in its most simple shape, such as was sketched by BUSHAN 

 [1SS9, 230, fig. 1], as having served at the first stage of the art of weaving. Both Systems of 

 warp-threads and weft-threads can be recognised in the figure. The thread used is a two- 

 stranded cord. The warp is 

 wound spirally, being stretch- 

 ed lengthwise, round the 

 two cross sticks, and forms 

 between the same double 

 warp-threads, which, lying at 

 first in pairs above each other, 

 are placed two and two along- 

 side each other by the intro- 

 duction of the weft-thread. 

 As however the weft-thread 

 is single, and the warp-thread 

 being double, a tissue is ob- 

 tained which can be placed 

 on a par with the western 

 rib weaves, i. e. in warp 

 effect (lengthways). Whether 

 the use of it requires any 

 more instruments, as those 

 employed with more com: 

 plicated looms, I am unable to state. 



The s mit h 's craft, still entirely unknown in Humboldt Bay and surroundings, is 

 applied with much zeal in the west. This craft the Papuans owe to the Ceram people, and 

 Van DlSSEL [1904*, 629 — 631] even found, that in the villages of Patipi and Rumbâti, at the 

 south coast of the MacCluer Gulf, the people, who forge, are of Mohammedan religion and 

 still show the Ceram type. Fig. 148 gives the customary arrangement, including the instru- 

 ment, already mentioned several times by others, which takes the place of the bellows. 



Fig. 14S. Smithy; Geelvink Bay. 



N°. 698. Ingrâs; bodkin of bird's bone, one end with head of joint, the other end sharpened into a point; 



length n cm. To be used in plaiting. From bag N°. 634. 

 N°. 699. PL XXIV, fig. 13. -!-. Por cheâb. Ingrâs; boar's caninus, ground down from the concave side 



obliquely in the direction towards the point and the convex medial surface, hère the enamel forming 



a sharp edge. Used as scraper. Found as before. 

 N°. 700. Por cheâb. Tobâdi; like N°. 699, four pièces, the largest with an outer circumference of 16, 



the smallest of 6 cm., and this -one so much ground down that the dental canal is opened. 



