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Excerpt from Handcrafts of the Society Islands
The lower extremities' [of the rafters of a house]' were ornamented with finely - woven, variegated matting or curiously braided cord, stained with brilliant red or black and yellow native colours, ingeniously wound round the polished wood. Exhibiting a singularly neat and chequered appearance terminated in a graceful fringe or bunch of tassels. The fringes of olden time house decoration have survived in costumes for dancing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
