Englisch | Englisch The woman Namburagua makes the major part of the required fibres from the young sprout of a sago-palm. She dyes the fibres yellow with smashed ginger root, red by boiling them with the leaves of the awui tree, and black by using mud. Several yellow dyed fibres, reserved for the back of the skirt, are bound with bark fibre and dyed red, then, after a further bounding, dyed black. Another, white-coloured fibre is obtained by Namburagua from the bark of a marsh-plant, which has been soaked in water for one week to loosen the inner bark. |