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Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands

Figure 231.—Mangaian religious symbols. a, stone symbol (British Mus., 9939): length, 88 mm.; width, 79 mm.; height, 60 mm. b, palm-leaf symbol (British Mus., 9940): tip of coconut leaf with seven leaflets; length, 425 mm.; a piece of flat sennit, 4 mm. wide, with four fibers in each ply, is tied around leaflets with a reef knot forming two loops like a bow tie

Figure 231.—Mangaian religious symbols. a, stone symbol (British Mus., 9939): length, 88 mm.; width, 79 mm.; height, 60 mm. b, palm-leaf symbol (British Mus., 9940): tip of coconut leaf with seven leaflets; length, 425 mm.; a piece of flat sennit, 4 mm. wide, with four fibers in each ply, is tied around leaflets with a reef knot forming two loops like a bow tie.

Figure 231.—Mangaian religious symbols. a, stone symbol (British Mus., 9939): length, 88 mm.; width, 79 mm.; height, 60 mm. b, palm-leaf symbol (British Mus., 9940): tip of coconut leaf with seven leaflets; length, 425 mm.; a piece of flat sennit, 4 mm. wide, with four fibers in each ply, is tied around leaflets with a reef knot forming two loops like a bow tie.