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The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
Strap
Strap.
A shoulder-strap for carrying weights (fig. 53) is a plaited band of pandanus leaf seven feet six inches long and an inch to an inch and a half broad. At one end is a knot, at the other a loop, the one intended to be drawn through the other. The native name of this was unfortunately not noted.
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Fig. 53
A reference in Maori literature appears to relate to a similar article:—"The Kawerau tribe derived their name from the shoulder-straps with which the chief Maki used to carry off his spoil, made of nikau leaves (rau); hence the name, kawe to carry, rau leaves."†
† Percy Smith—The Peopling of the North, Journ. Polyn. Soc, vi., 1897, Supplement, p. 35. See also Edge-Partington—loc. cit,, ii., pl. ccxxxiii., fig. 11.