Thanks Paul. The simpler ones don't seem like rope holders. My guess on the rope holder possibility stems from Bucky Fullers conjecture that Bronze was first...
Which Buchmaster Fuller book or article are you referring to? Robin Day China "\" A. Lemak A.S. \"" <alas_my_loves@...> wrote: Thanks Paul. The simpler...
In The Pagan Tribes of Borneo (Fig. 30) there is a a photo of an Iban jacket and hat of mail armour made of large fish scales sewn on a goat's skin. This may...
... Iban jacket and hat of mail armour made of large fish scales sewn on a goat's skin. This may have been the origin of the scale armour (metal and bamboo)...
... I remember reading that at Ban Chiang and/or Non Nok Tha copper deposits often contained natural tin contamination. So accidental/experimental smelting of...
Paul, ever seen any lingling-o - like pendant or artifact outside of the Igorot people craftspeople? Any similar pendants in Vietnam or suothern India or...
Thanks for the info. Lemak. I agree Paul, a lot of processes are accidental, just like cooking. One of the things that puzzled me earlier is why people would...
Don't forget the earliest use of fired clay around cooked food was by Beijing Man, Homo erectus. One may not want to call this ceramics but they have survived...
... Yes, it was associated with the ancient Sa-Huynh-Kalanay culture, as conceived by Bill Solheim, which lasted from many centuries as was spread throughout...
In The Pagan Tribes of Borneo plate 66, there isa a Balawing pole set into the ground outside a long house. It is something like a totem pole. Strung from it...
... set into the ground outside a long house. It is something like a totem pole. Strung from it are long stringy decorations made of palm leaf perhaps. I saw...
Here in Changsha, China, wild song birds are captured and sold in markets as pets. Have seen the same in Thailand. In the Phillipines in February I saw carved...
I'd heard of the fire pistons but never seen one, seems very practical in a rainforest, I could certainly have used one while winter and spring camping in...
I want to compare the Balawing pole with the ones in Bali but this computer I have to use is antiquated. Can't get the Bali webpages. The Bali poles were one...
I don't know the origin of the fire pistons, my Malay friends didn't mention it, I thought it was mostly used in Borneo and Phil. I recall from a book about...
... computer I have to use is antiquated. Can't get the Bali webpages. ... Do you have the urls? One of the names of the fire piston in the Philippines is...
Bamboo Pole Banners (a better name) Uurls Paul? I just search under Balinese bamboo arts and crafts (lots of hits) but this computer is hopeless till I can get...
Do take time to read Time Magazine's current issue with the cover story "Who were the first Americans"?. The article posits heavy Austronesian evidence on the...
My guess is that the fire piston originated in island Southeast Asia. Blowpipes are common in Malaya among natural tribes, and Borneo, made from hardwood...
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I will get back to you with more details of the blowgun manufacture. In Borneo it was tied to a platform and bored out from the top down.Iron was used but in...
... I'm posting a description of indigenous copper smelting found among the Igorots of northern Luzon from Fedor Jagor et al.'s "Philippines through Foreign...
Hosie's book Pagan Tribes of Borneo shows a bellows made of twin bamboo tubes (very large diameter), plate 107, and one man moving plungers up and down in...
... bamboo tubes (very large diameter), plate 107, and one man moving plungers up and down in them alternately. A more complex smelter, like the Luzon example,...
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