Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History (1899) (16583196368)

Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0002.001.umich.edu
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Michigan

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i6 Mat and Basket Weaving. craft have few fans. The use of fans as insignia of rank, so common in southeastern Asia, and seen also in the flabelli of papal display at Rome, does not seem to have had much vogue among the scattered islands of the great ocean. The attraction of evolution has led us from baskets to fans, but we must now return to another form of basket made from palm leaf and wholly unconneded with the '4nidrib strudure. No. 3346, in Plate I, is a coiled basket of palm from the Caroline Ids., looking at first glance like a rattan basket; but it is from the leaf and not the stem that it is construAed. To show the coils and the meth- ods of binding these together Mr, L. G. Blackman has drawn for me two figures (19-20) and from these the entire strudure of the basket may be seen;—the neatly sewed rim, the knots between each coil, the many sticks that compose this coil, and in the second diagram the curious displacement of what seem to be direct ver- tical lines of strip bind- ing the coils. With these the curious reader can follow the con-
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