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Title: Ethnology of Manihiki and Rakahanga

Author: Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Henry Buck)

Publication details: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1932

Part of: Tidal Pools: Digitized Texts from Oceania for Samoan and Pacific Studies

This text is the subject of: Victoria University of Wellington Library Catalogue

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Ethnology of Manihiki and Rakahanga

Figure 78. Ruvettus hook, snood wrapping. a, inner point side: end of line or snood (4) unraveled into its three plies (1–3) and laid on inner straight side of shank end (5) with short ply (1) to left and two longer plies to right; lower level of unraveled line just about that of lower notch of knob on opposite side. b, inner point side: left single ply (1) carried around back on outer side below knob in transverse turn to reappear on right (1′) where it is drawn firm and sloped upward to cross middle line under snood (4). c, right side: two plies on right treated as single element (2) and brought around to right under knob (6). d, inner side: plies (2) have passed to right and around back under knob when they appear on left to make transverse turn (2′); plies pass around back again in transverse turn below knob and end up on inner side (2″). e, left side, showing turn (1) of left ply with its end (1′) and turns (2′,2″) of right double plies: so long as these plies kept in position by subsequent lashing they cannot pull up over knob (6)

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Figure 78. Ruvettus hook, snood wrapping. a, inner point side: end of line or snood (4) unraveled into its three plies (1–3) and laid on inner straight side of shank end (5) with short ply (1) to left and two longer plies to right; lower level of unraveled line just about that of lower notch of knob on opposite side. b, inner point side: left single ply (1) carried around back on outer side below knob in transverse turn to reappear on right (1′) where it is drawn firm and sloped upward to cross middle line under snood (4). c, right side: two plies on right treated as single element (2) and brought around to right under knob (6). d, inner side: plies (2) have passed to right and around back under knob when they appear on left to make transverse turn (2′); plies pass around back again in transverse turn below knob and end up on inner side (2″). e, left side, showing turn (1) of left ply with its end (1′) and turns (2′,2″) of right double plies: so long as these plies kept in position by subsequent lashing they cannot pull up over knob (6).

Figure 78. Ruvettus hook, snood wrapping. a, inner point side: end of line or snood (4) unraveled into its three plies (1–3) and laid on inner straight side of shank end (5) with short ply (1) to left and two longer plies to right; lower level of unraveled line just about that of lower notch of knob on opposite side. b, inner point side: left single ply (1) carried around back on outer side below knob in transverse turn to reappear on right (1′) where it is drawn firm and sloped upward to cross middle line under snood (4). c, right side: two plies on right treated as single element (2) and brought around to right under knob (6). d, inner side: plies (2) have passed to right and around back under knob when they appear on left to make transverse turn (2′); plies pass around back again in transverse turn below knob and end up on inner side (2″). e, left side, showing turn (1) of left ply with its end (1′) and turns (2′,2″) of right double plies: so long as these plies kept in position by subsequent lashing they cannot pull up over knob (6).

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