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X 3 . 715. PI. XXV, fig. 10. 2 / n . Abâr; spatula-shaped pièce of fairly heavy, yellowish brown wood; handle 

 marked off by an encircling carving; thickness in the middle 2 cm., thinner towards the rounded-off 

 edges. Weight 256 gr. Used together with N°. 714, in shaping clay pots. 



N°. 716. PL XXV, fig. 1. ?/ n . Mâkpâtâr. Tarfia; weaving frame out of two pièces of sago leaf stalk 

 and two transverse, sharp-pointed, cylindrical pins; round thèse two pins a light brown, two-stranded 

 cord, inâr, out of bark strips is wound, somewhat stretched, running spirally 17 times round both, 

 producing 17 upper and 17 lower cords (warp), separated by the thickness of the pins; with the 

 continuation of the cord, beginning alongside one of the pins, each of the upper cords is at first 

 squeezed together with the corresponding lower one, after the i7 th pair the same thing repeated in 

 the opposite direction, and after this it moves from side to side as a weft-thread between the 17 

 double warp threads, ail 34 lying in one plane, producing a rib weave, in warp effect. Girdle in 

 course of manufacture: the cord attached, 3.15 m. in length. 



