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Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands

Figure 240.—Decoration of shafts (L.M.S., coll.: a,30; b,31; d,32): a, shaft seized with flat sennit 2.5 mm. wide for 45 mm. and bunches of split black feathers seized with single coir fiber caught under turn of shaft seizing; feathers, including occasional tropic bird white tail feathers, directed upward as in figure 239, d; three succeeding rows spaced successively 61, 58, and 69 mm. apart with effect shown (1); lowest feather row (2); 16 mm. below, two tufts of human hair (3) caught under se…

Figure 240.—Decoration of shafts (L.M.S., coll.: a,30; b,31; d,32): a, shaft seized with flat sennit 2.5 mm. wide for 45 mm. and bunches of split black feathers seized with single coir fiber caught under turn of shaft seizing; feathers, including occasional tropic bird white tail feathers, directed upward as in figure 239, d; three succeeding rows spaced successively 61, 58, and 69 mm. apart with effect shown (1); lowest feather row (2); 16 mm. below, two tufts of human hair (3) caught under seizing; at lower end whole black feathers in two rows pointing upward and downward with quills together were tied in position over shaft seizing by four turns of sennit (see fig. 241, a). b, cord holders (1) projecting 44 mm. above seizing turn of fine braid in four groups of 5 or 6 holders, succeeded lower down by short single holders (2); seizing braid changes to coarser, 3 mm. wide, which lower down fixes 4 sets of 7 holders (3). c, lower end of b: lower sennit-covered end of shaft covered by turns of doubled thick braid 5 mm. wide, wrapped with human hair of brownish color (1); top end buried under subsequent turns and lower end (2) pushed through under last turn; pedestal (3). d, lower end of shaft with multiple lozenge inaere design (1) worked in fine sennit; upper end (not shown) with sennit seizing supporting coir cord holders in groups of four; four lengths of thick sennit 4 mm. wide were seized together with human hair and looped around upper part of shaft, hair on hanging part had evidently unwound.

Figure 240.—Decoration of shafts (L.M.S., coll.: a,30; b,31; d,32): a, shaft seized with flat sennit 2.5 mm. wide for 45 mm. and bunches of split black feathers seized with single coir fiber caught under turn of shaft seizing; feathers, including occasional tropic bird white tail feathers, directed upward as in figure 239, d; three succeeding rows spaced successively 61, 58, and 69 mm. apart with effect shown (1); lowest feather row (2); 16 mm. below, two tufts of human hair (3) caught under seizing; at lower end whole black feathers in two rows pointing upward and downward with quills together were tied in position over shaft seizing by four turns of sennit (see fig. 241, a). b, cord holders (1) projecting 44 mm. above seizing turn of fine braid in four groups of 5 or 6 holders, succeeded lower down by short single holders (2); seizing braid changes to coarser, 3 mm. wide, which lower down fixes 4 sets of 7 holders (3). c, lower end of b: lower sennit-covered end of shaft covered by turns of doubled thick braid 5 mm. wide, wrapped with human hair of brownish color (1); top end buried under subsequent turns and lower end (2) pushed through under last turn; pedestal (3). d, lower end of shaft with multiple lozenge inaere design (1) worked in fine sennit; upper end (not shown) with sennit seizing supporting coir cord holders in groups of four; four lengths of thick sennit 4 mm. wide were seized together with human hair and looped around upper part of shaft, hair on hanging part had evidently unwound.