Figure 219.—Large sennit feather god, Atiu (British Mus., L.M.S. coll., 572). a, total length 450 mm., circumference at top (1) 330 mm., at middle 520 mm., lower end (2) 415 mm.; foundation sennit thick and coarse, ranging from 10 mm. wide and 4 mm. thick to 25 mm. wide and 12 mm. thick; strands of fiber used in plies bound together by single coir fiber before plaiting; some of internal braid lengths covered with feathers on one side in same manner as outer sennit, evidently due to more braid being covered with feathers than required for outer lengths and hence covered in. b, top end: sennit lengths doubled back at top end (1) and closely bound with fine cord; feathers attached to top bend; three lengths (2) have free ends 420 mm. long which projected beyond end but were turned back to outside of body and tied to it with trade string (evidently came loose). c, lower end: sennit lengths end in free ends not connected with each other for a distance of 421 mm., and last 85 mm. had feathers attached on both sides of sennit by spiral method; interior turns forming solid body evidently ended some distance from lower end, while insertion of a vine loop (1) with its ends overlapping for 9 mm. kept outer layer of sennit in form of a hollow cylinder, the free braids attached to circumference of hoop by threads. d, technique of connecting outer feather-covered length of sennit: two neighboring lengths (1, 2) with continuous spiral turns here made from left to right; a thread (3) passes down between braids and at intervals of 43 to 47 mm. under two adjacent turns of feather fixation thread (4, 5) and around standing part to form an overhand knot which is drawn taut; a thread passed down every interval between sennit lengths for whole circumference, and all outer sennit lengths were bound together.