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Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands
Figure 47.—Hair attachment: a, long tress of black hair about 370 mm. long is seized at scalp end with a single coir fiber, commencing at 1, by bending fiber upward and covering it with successive transverse turns to fix it; when seizing reaches point 2, end of tuft is bent around to lie against standing part, and transverse turns continue around both parts and finish off by pushing end of fiber (3) back under two lowest turn; this provides eyelet hole (4). b, hair tufts are threaded on a cord …
Figure 47.—Hair attachment: a, long tress of black hair about 370 mm. long is seized at scalp end with a single coir fiber, commencing at 1, by bending fiber upward and covering it with successive transverse turns to fix it; when seizing reaches point 2, end of tuft is bent around to lie against standing part, and transverse turns continue around both parts and finish off by pushing end of fiber (3) back under two lowest turn; this provides eyelet hole (4). b, hair tufts are threaded on a cord (6) passed through eyelet holes.