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2890. This sinnet, which was suggested by the foregoing, is a most

successful EQUILATERAL TRIANGULAR SINNET of one strand. The

drawing illustrates it made with SINGLE HITCHES, but this has no

advantages over making it with round turns, as shown in ~ 2889. If

doubled, the sinnet loses some of its distinction. The illustration por-

trays one side only.

2891. A DIAMOND CROSS-SECTION SPOOL SINNET. Start with a TOM

FOOL'S KNOT, thereafter pass each peg with a belaying-pin turn (fig-

ure-eight or S turn). Hold the apparatus, without shiftin~, in the po-

sition depicted (do not rotate), lift the cord over and cast off inside

the pins alternately. The spool pictured here is the wooden plug

from one end of a roll of paper; one may be secured in almost any

shop that uses wrapping paper.

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2892. A sinnet somewhat similar to the one just sho"on may be,

made by employing a series of identical hitches. The apparatus may

be rotated in the direction found more convenient, when onk t'H)

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pins or pegs are employed. Generally I have found a counterclock-

wise direction the easier, but the reverse will probably suit the left-

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- handed person better.

2893. If alternating left and right hitches are taken with the single

strand a sinnet somewhat similar in appearance to ~ 2894 results, but

the latter has three strands.

2894. A sinnet of two loops and three cords, taken from the 38th

Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. There are

several examples of Loop SINNETS given in an article on the arts and

crafts of the Guiana Indians. For the most part they are not sym-

metrical. In the description of this particular sinnet the loops are

held on the thumb and forefinger of the left hand. But it may easily

be made on a spool. Three cords of equal length are tied together.

NOOSES are made in two of them close to the knotted end and these

are put over the pegs on the spool. The third cord is placed between

the two knotted ones at the front. Lead the unengaged end to the

back and then to the right around the right pin; then lift the loop

(NOOSE) and cast off over the pin. The cord that has just been cast

off is next led to the back and counterclockwise around the left pin.

and the loop on that pin is lifted and cast off over the newly arrived

cord and the pin. There is always one unengaged cord at the front

center ready to be used and this is always the strand to be worked.

It is carried to the back across the center of the structure, and then

around one of the two pins which are worked alternately.