Weaving Bark
[tT was cotton that shipped the negroes to America. While the darkies plucked "white gold" in the "cotton fields away" the Maori wahines in this unknown land were wandering in cool glades stripping bark from the Houhere
trees, With their sharp stone knives they would sever the bark part of the way round the tree, then tear it off in strips. The outer bark would be peeled off — the inner layers soaked in a stream until the mucus sap was:
washed out and the lacelike strips could be easily pulled apart. As soon as the strips were dry, the old dames, squatting on their mats would begin their plaiting
or weaving.-
("Bush Trekking."
Rewa
Glenn
_ 2YA, March 24.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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120Weaving Bark New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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