cinnet

Large quantities of _cinnet_ are plaited by the old men principally.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

In one might be seen a conch shell, suspended from the roof in a basket made of cinnet network; and this the god was supposed to blow when he wished the people to rise to war.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

That, however, may be remedied by a network of cinnet, to keep down the thatch, or by the native plan of covering all in with a layer of heavy cocoa-nut leaves on the approach of a gale.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

It is through this ledge or rim they bored the holes, and with a few turns of cinnet sewed tight one board to the other.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

Twenty or thirty pieces of the rib of the cocoa-nut leaflet, fastened close together with a thread of cinnet, form a _comb_.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

All are kept in their places, an inch and a half apart, by cross pieces, made fast with cinnet.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

From stem to stern there is not a nail; everything is fastened in their ancient style, with cinnet plaited from the fibre of the cocoa-nut husk.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

There is not a single nail in the whole building; all is made fast with cinnet.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

At political meetings also, where there are hours of formal palaver and speechifying, the old men take their work with them, and improve the time at the cleanly, useful occupation of twisting cinnet.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

These reeds, thus fringed with the sugar-cane leaves hanging down three or four feet, are laid on, beginning at the eaves and running up to the ridge pole, each one overlapping its fellow an inch or so, and made fast one by one with cinnet to the inside rods or rafters.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner