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Loom from Iquitos
Loom from Iquitos
H. Ling Roth · Man, 1920
Article · 3 pages
A short note in Man (August 1920, no. 62) describing a small pear-shaped cane loom from Iquitos, Peru, collected by ex-Consul David B. Adamson for the Liverpool Free Public Museum. Roth gives its dimensions, warp count and construction (cross band, two stays, continuous leash, missing heddle rod), and describes four accompanying warp-patterned ribbons or wrist-bands and four pot-whorl spindles. Adamson's notes on local weaving and ornament are included, with a comparison to similar looms in British Guiana and in Farabee's Central Arawaks. Figures show the loom, the ribbons and the spindle whorls.
Note on a Peruvian Loom of the Chimu Period
Note on a Peruvian Loom of the Chimu Period
T. A. Joyce · Man, 1922
Article · 3 pages
A short note by T. A. Joyce describing a miniature pre-Spanish Peruvian loom of the Chimu period in the British Museum, with its dimensions and construction. The loom is set up for double-faced cloth with two warps and two wefts, white and brown cotton, and has two heddle rods and a reed shed-stick. Joyce describes the continuous warping, the twined selvage, the cat-and-stepped-coil design, and the thread counts. He compares the heddle-leash arrangement with looms elsewhere and dates the piece to after about 1400 A.D. and before the Spanish arrival.
Note on a Specimen of Basket-Work from California
Note on a Specimen of Basket-Work from California
M. O. Dalton · Man, 1901
Article · 2 pages
A short 1901 note from the journal Man describing a large collection from California and Oregon given to the British Museum by Rev. Selwyn C. Freer, assembled mainly by Rev. R. W. Summers. It singles out a flexible cylindrical basket attributed to the Umqua Indians, with inwoven brown human and animal figures on a buff ground, which is pictured in a photograph. The note also surveys the collection's stone and bone implements and compares the basketry with possible prehistoric European industries.
Notes on Cypriot Textiles
Notes on Cypriot Textiles
Article · 4 pages
A 1921 article in Man by L. H. Dudley Buxton, based on fieldwork in Cyprus in 1913, describing traditional Cypriot textile production. It covers spinning, quill-winding and skein frames, the treatment of silk, and a detailed description of the village loom (batten, reed, four heddles, pulleys, treadles, temple, shuttle) with the additions for double-warp weaving. A plate of six photographs shows looms, quilt winding and spinning at Lapethos.
Notes on Solomon Island Baskets and on Lord Howe's Group
Notes on Solomon Island Baskets and on Lord Howe's Group
R. Parkinson · Man, 1907
Article · 4 pages
A short 1907 note from the journal Man by R. Parkinson. It describes plaited trays and baskets (dara, doado, koko) from the east coast of Bougainville and northern Choiseul in the Solomon Islands, made from the dried stem of a fern, and notes similar work in New Britain and the Admiralty Islands. A second part on Lord Howe's Group (Ongtong Java) gives bibliographic pointers, brief notes on the islanders' origins and contacts, and two photographs of graveyards. The scan also includes the end of a preceding note on a tomahawk and the start of a book review.
Peruvian Loom in the Proto-Chimu Period
Peruvian Loom in the Proto-Chimu Period
T. A. Joyce · Man, 1921
Article · 5 pages
A short note from the journal Man by T. A. Joyce on a Proto-Chimu pottery bowl from the Chicama Valley, Peru, whose painted lip shows eight women weaving at looms under matting-roofed sheds. Joyce observes that none of the looms has a heddle, so the textiles are tapestry, and the patterns run diagonally to limit vertical slits. He then discusses Max Schmidt's conclusions on Peruvian tapestry slit treatments (open slits, sewing, overlap, interlocking wefts) and suggests the heddle came late to Peruvian weaving, possibly not before contact with the Inca.
The Solomon Island Basket
The Solomon Island Basket
Article · 4 pages
Article from the journal Man (1910) by W. H. R. Rivers and Mrs. Hingston Quiggin describing how women on Simbo (Eddystone Island) in the Solomon Islands make plaited baskets from split coconut-palm leaf. It explains the preparation of the leaf, making the upper rim, the body and contraction, and the turning of the basket inside out, then the filling in of the base that produces the patch-like bottom. The authors argue the patch results from the fineness of the strands rather than a need for strength. One plate with line diagrams and photographs illustrates the stages, and native technical terms are given. The scan also ends with the start of an unrelated short piece by Sir Herbert Risley on India and anthropology.
Solomon Island Basket
Solomon Island Basket
Article · 2 pages
A short note from the journal Man describing a very large funnel-shaped coiled basket from the Solomon Islands, probably the Bougainville Straits area. It gives the basket's dimensions and construction: single-rod coiling of reeds bound with split rattan, herring-bone ornament in vertical bands, and four handholes below the rim. The author compares it with smaller baskets in the British Museum. Two photographs illustrate the basket.
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