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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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Piko and Hanai. 121 turning at/. This knot can be and probably was made in a simpler way. With the ball cord j looped through g at /«, the loop / is made leaving a large slack at m and n; then this slack is tightly wound around g and / the required number of times, the balance of the' slack being taken in by drawing on /. Reference should be made to the knot in Hanai D in Fig. 137. Piko O (Figs. 132 and 133).—In Diagram i, after doubling the cord at^ make the loops ^, fl^ and/with the ball cord, leaving enough slack. Then lay the ball cord e along the bends of the loops and wind the slack c a few times around the whole. Then loop the cord ag at // and continue winding with c. When the slack of c is
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FIO. lift. I'IKO F. taken up by e, the knot x, Diag. 2, will serve to begin the piko, and the details of the regular knot are shown in the same diagram. X being completed, with the ball cord e pass the loop U through d leaving slack at //, and over b lay e and the loop d', leaving another slack at c. Then c is bound around all the cords on a level with d, and as the binding proceeds, the slack // is divided into two loops, // //, Diag. 3, and held in place by c. Sometimes the ball cord / is not laid along d\ but is carried for- ward outside J/. In such cases this piko differs from Piko N only in the additional loops h h' projeding from the side. Fig. 132 was drawn with the details in an upright position. Fig. 133 shows this piko, which in the specimen photographed was small. Hanai.—The hanai begins where the last loop of the piko was made. Hanai A (Figs. 114 and 118).—This is the simple fisherman's knot, known by natives as ka, umii, etc., as shown by gg in the figures.

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