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Studies in primitive looms (1918)

Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Journal · Halifax [Eng.] F. King & sons, ltd · leaf 77

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64 H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. in Africa at the present day. The attempt must he regarded as strictly tentativeonly, for, while the main positions are, I think, fairly correctly placed, details of theextension of each individual form are still lacking. With the exception of the… … in Egypt, all the other five forms are introduced. The fixed heddle loom appearsto have entered Africa both in the north-east vid Arabia and in the south-east vidMadagascar. The horizontal narrow band treadle loom came possibly fromPortugal, and the pit treadle loom was probably imported from India…

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