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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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n.Kiono I /.\i: .mr coi.li.ctios 171 Icniiths of liciiip. She hinds ;iin! tics tlicM' clusters so tiulitly ;iinl firiiil>- that wlicn the whole warp is afterward d\i'd no coh)r can peiiclrate to the parts thii- tic(l: these seelioiis of the warp remain the natural eiianiy tint of the hemp. Hy this method a nnu h wider freedom in design is wci-e all made in the wea\in,y itself. The loom i-' tin center of interest in vwvy household, and its patterns tend to dominate the d(>siiins used in much of the wood eur\itii; and basketry. In the ;)atterns on hin'den baskets the desiiins used in hemp textiles re.unlarl\- a))pear: the -surface of the basket \- nnifoianly dixided in1(( three pai'allc! H( Id-^ i-umn'ni:' around the basket, like the three cireulai- >ti-ii)s composing a
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" Burden basket" to be carried on the back. In such a basket Bagobo women brinfi in the corn and potatoes Ironi the field. Tlie pattern is made by plaiting the rattan of natural color witli that blackened witli t!i(! Ijurnt end of a resin torch woman's skirt, and the ^tandal•ll designs of the skirt are rcpi-oduecd with more or loss aeeuraey in the eorresjjoiulin,'; sections of the basket, as far as the teehnifjue of the material j)ermits. This tendency to seize upon textile motives for ell'ects in rattan by no means implies that the art of wea\inj; is necessarily older than the art of basketry. Amonj; the Ha^^obo it is possible that both processes had their l)e,<,nmu'nf;s at nearly the same time. Hut early or late in the history of Ba^'obo art, the actixity interests that cluster round the loon) j,'a\'e a stron^^ stimulus to such an interj)retation of basketry figures, a.s the familiar patterns of the weaver suggested.

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