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Title: Studies in primitive looms
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Journal
Subjects: Weaving
Publisher: Halifax (Eng.) F. King & sons, ltd
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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TYPE OF VERTICAL COTTON LOOM , WESTAFRlCft wooden model of two women weaving, found in a tomb at Beni Hasan,1 is un-fortunately on too small a scale to be of any assistance.2 1 Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt, London, 1907. 2 All these Egyptian looms are illustrated in Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms, alreadyquoted. H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 49 The Madagascar looms show Oriental influence, but I think that whenGrandidier says that the loom of the Malagashes is identical with that of theIndo-Oceanic peoples l he goes much too far. It seems certain, however, that ithas crossed from the island to the mainland of Africa, and in extending northwardmet another, a similar loom, coming south from Egypt or Somaliland—its extensionwestward along the Mediterranean and the Sahara being no doubt due to Arabic-Berber migrations.
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FlS.^IA. WOMEN WEAVING A JEKM FROM JEA.N PtfnME.ROUS AMOt^C THE.NNOME.N OF TMESAHAPnA* LOWDoM I^OO P.&99. 3. The Vertical Cotton Loom.—We now come to the vertical cotton loom onwhich plain and pattern cloths are woven. The illustration, Fig. 91, gives itschief characteristics, as it can be seen at the present day, on the West Coast inAbeokuta, Opobo, etc. In Figs. 91a and 91b we have ib as met with at the present,in perhaps a more original form, in Algeria. It is everywhere worked by womenonly. Miss Gehrts2 mentions that at Bafilo, the only place she seems to haveobserved the loom, the women weavers had a guild such as the men weavers haveelsewhere. 1 Ethnograpine de Madagascar, Paris, 1908, p. 63, footnote. 2 A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland, Loudon, 1915, pp. 93-4. 50 H. Ling Koth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. The West Coast modification consists of a square frame made up of an upperand lower piece of palm leaf mid-rib or stem into which are fixed two uprights;occasi

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