Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson, M.D. and Charles Hercules Read, F.S.A.

Date:
1892
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    No. VI.—SWIMMING. 1. What is the common method of swimming ? 2. Are there any games into which swimming enters ? 3. Can the natives swim long distances ? 4. Can they swim at a great speed ] 4a. Is any board or other apparatus used, as desci'ibed in the surf swimming in E. Pacific ? 5. Are the natives expert divers ? 6. Do they dive weighted with a stone ? 7. How long can they i emain under water ? 8. Is this considered a feat ? 9. Do they dive head or feet first ? 10. Do the tribes inland swim as well as the coast tribes? 11. Is swimming taught^ or is it supposed to be a natural action, like walking ? C. H. K. No. VII.—WEAVING. Weaving, like spinning, dates back to a very early period ; and the tissues found in the ancient Swiss Lake-dwellings are of more than one kind. The looms used for weaving vary considerably ; but the simplest form of complete loom may be thus described :—There is a roll, or yarn-beam, on which the warp of unwoven thread is wound or beamed, and another roll, or cloth-beam, on which the woven tissue is received. The warp, or the threads passing from one roll to the other are kept in a slate of tension, and each thread passes through an eyelet-hole in a vertical cord or heddle. The alternate heddles are attached to two separate frames, so that one set of alternate threads in the loom can be drawn away from the other, either upwards or downwards, and leave a space or shed between the two sets of threads, through which a shuttle can be thrown with the weft or transverse thread This is then beaten up against the thread last thrown in, by means of a reed, or grating, through the intervals in which the warp-threads pass, and which is fixed in a swinging batten or lay, so as to give weight to the blow The two sets of warp-threads are of course alternately