Figure 251.—Tapa and human hair bundle (British Mus., L.M.S., 64): bundle composed of cylindrical folds of white tapa, 235 mm. long, with black frizzy hair (2) enclosed by upper end of tapa and fixed by transverse turns of sennit at top, middle, and bottom; top diameter 38 mm.; middle diameter 58 mm.; bottom diameter 30 mm.; hair length above bundle 240 mm.; a few white feathers and a tropic bird white tail feather are caught under top lashing; in top lashing (3), sennit commencement end is bent upward and a number of turns made over thumb laid vertically against bundle, sennit after last turn at top is passed downward under turns, thumb removed, and turns drawn taut from below upward which covers and fixes commencement end; sennit is pulled downward to remove slack and a complete top lashing; sennit is car ried down to middle lashing (4) where three turns are made from below upward over thumb, sennit passed down under turns, turns tautened from below upward, and slack removed by pulling sennit free end downward as in upper lashing; bottom lashing (5) is made in exactly same way and sennit, after pulled downward to remove slack, is cut off below lashing. The technique is like that used on some adz shafts (fig. 116, a).