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Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0002.001.umich.edu
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Michigan

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Various Ptko. 115 This is Piko A in its simplest form, and in the second figure a variation is shown where the shuttle cord, after tying at b^ makes a different knot with a at c, the details of which are shown at c\ All the knots at c are tied similarly to c\ and at c' the order of tying is merely reversed. The return cord e knots with a at / as shown. Piko B (Fig. 112) is as in Piko A as far as c where the shuttle cord is knotted simply, thus leaving a loop, through which the loop d is passed. Then the shuttle is run twice round the loop <f, and back through the two loops thus made. This knot is the same as a fisherman's knot with a double turn. Piko B differs from the former in that an additional loop d is added to each knotted loop c. Piko C (Fig. 114).—A simpler form than the following piko. In this the cord is twice looped, and the free end b passed under the shuttle cord a and around a and c. The loop d is left and the free end knotted around the base of the loop, thus fastening the ring. The shuttle is then sent around the ring at/ when the process of the first knot at e is repeated reversed. Piko D (Fig. 116).—A double ring being made, the free end is passed over the shuttle cord, under the other ring cord and back over the shuttle cord, follow- ing which a half hitch is made around the ring and the knot at b completed, Diag. i. Then, Diag. 2, three loops are made through the ring at d, the shuttle return- ing at e and being sent around the loops and cord a three times and through the loops thus formed. The knot at //, Diag. 3, is thus made, and the cord/carried to the next point ,^^- on the ring, where the last described knot is repeated. Piko E (P'igs. 117 and 118).—In the samples examined, a double ring was made, with the free end a, Diag. i, Fig. 117, passing under the shuttle cord d and over the middle cord /;. Then, Diag. 2, a is looped, passed through the ring at b and knotted simply to itself at c\ looped again and a fisherman^s knot with two turns run around the part of the ring at b. This process results in the knot at //, Fig. 118. Then the shuttle cord d, after tying at c\ continues, as//, the work of the piko, which is complete when/joins the free end at i and begins the hanai as/. This piko m principle is
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Piko • FIG. 108. KOKO rijupnij.

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