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Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands
Figure 20.—Coconut-leaf sheets: a, thatch sheet of two halves of split coconut leaf, check plait commencing from midrib edges (1, 2); b, ridging sheet with middle whole leaf (1) and two half leaves (2, 2); c, wall sheet of two half leaves (1, 1) with free ends plaited in three-ply braid (2)
Figure 20.—Coconut-leaf sheets: a, thatch sheet of two halves of split coconut leaf, check plait commencing from midrib edges (1, 2); b, ridging sheet with middle whole leaf (1) and two half leaves (2, 2); c, wall sheet of two half leaves (1, 1) with free ends plaited in three-ply braid (2).