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Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands

Figure 218.—Sennit and feather god (British Mus., L.M.S., 36). a, full figure: thick sennit covered with folded strip of coconut stipule folded longitudinally to roughly form rounded head (1), long body (2), arms (3) 167 mm. long, and legs (4) 130 mm. long; waist width, 121 mm.; total length, 555 mm.; outer folds covered with thin bark cloth from 9 to 14 mm. wide; head and neck formed by constricting with cord and so with arms and legs. b, tropic bird tail feathers (1) with small red feathers (…

Figure 218.—Sennit and feather god (British Mus., L.M.S., 36). a, full figure: thick sennit covered with folded strip of coconut stipule folded longitudinally to roughly form rounded head (1), long body (2), arms (3) 167 mm. long, and legs (4) 130 mm. long; waist width, 121 mm.; total length, 555 mm.; outer folds covered with thin bark cloth from 9 to 14 mm. wide; head and neck formed by constricting with cord and so with arms and legs. b, tropic bird tail feathers (1) with small red feathers (2) tied to quill of long feathers. c, coir cord holder (1) with small red feathers (2), split black (3) and tropic bird tail feathers (4). d, sennit holder (1) with small red (2) split back (3), tropic bird (4), and wing and tail feathers of parakeet (5). e, sennit holder (1) with feathers similar to those in c but upper end (6) of holder projects above red feathers; other end doubled back so that turn of spiral thread (7) fixes holder to sennit length. f, spiral thread (7) takes turn around some of feather holders (1). g, ring carrier (1) with seven cord holders (2) each carrying red feathers (3) and tropic bird feathers (4). h, ring carrier, g, hunched up to form rosette which will be kept in position by spiral thread as in e. i, tuft of human hair, 120 mm. long, with spaced seizing by single coir fiber to form eyelet hole.

Figure 218.—Sennit and feather god (British Mus., L.M.S., 36). a, full figure: thick sennit covered with folded strip of coconut stipule folded longitudinally to roughly form rounded head (1), long body (2), arms (3) 167 mm. long, and legs (4) 130 mm. long; waist width, 121 mm.; total length, 555 mm.; outer folds covered with thin bark cloth from 9 to 14 mm. wide; head and neck formed by constricting with cord and so with arms and legs. b, tropic bird tail feathers (1) with small red feathers (2) tied to quill of long feathers. c, coir cord holder (1) with small red feathers (2), split black (3) and tropic bird tail feathers (4). d, sennit holder (1) with small red (2) split back (3), tropic bird (4), and wing and tail feathers of parakeet (5). e, sennit holder (1) with feathers similar to those in c but upper end (6) of holder projects above red feathers; other end doubled back so that turn of spiral thread (7) fixes holder to sennit length. f, spiral thread (7) takes turn around some of feather holders (1). g, ring carrier (1) with seven cord holders (2) each carrying red feathers (3) and tropic bird feathers (4). h, ring carrier, g, hunched up to form rosette which will be kept in position by spiral thread as in e. i, tuft of human hair, 120 mm. long, with spaced seizing by single coir fiber to form eyelet hole.