Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States1896 - Indian textile fabrics - 44 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
aboriginal Alabama ANNUAL REPORT PL argillite Arkansas Banner stone barbed bark Bartow county blade bottom bowlders Bradley county BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY Caldwell county canes Casa cavate lodges celt central North Carolina cliff cluster concave convex curved diameter District ditch eastern Tennessee edge feathers feet flakes flat Fossil creek Georgia granite ground plan hole illustrated in figure implements inches long Indians Kanawha valley material mats McMinn county Mississippi mound nearly North Carolina northeastern Kentucky northern notched Ohio Omaha ornament perforated pestles plate polished Polk county probably pueblo quartzite region river rooms round ruin sandstone Savannah Scioto valley scraper showing shown in figure side slate sometimes southern southwestern Arkansas southwestern Illinois specimens steatite Stemmed chipped flint surface Tennessee textile thick THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT thread tribes Union county Verde village wall West Virginia western North Carolina woven Zuñi
Popular passages
Page 346 - ... to the North, the second to the West, the third to the South and the fourth to the East. By the left side of the...
Page 111 - In this month we began to make sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about two gallons each : they made above one hundred of these kind of vessels.
Page 16 - ... ever saw, considering their materials. They divide large swamp canes into long, thin, narrow splinters, which they dye of several colours, and manage the workmanship so well, that both the inside and outside are covered with a beautiful variety of pleasing figures, and, though for the space of two inches below the upper edge of each basket, it is worked into one, through the other parts they are worked asunder, as if they were two joined a-top by some strong cement. A large nest consists of eight...
Page 356 - Even so!" said the Sky-father; "Yet not alone shalt thou helpful be unto our children, for behold!" and he spread his hand abroad with the palm downward and into all the wrinkles and crevices thereof he set the semblance of shining yellow corn-grains; in the dark of the early world-dawn they gleamed like sparks of fire, and moved as his hand was moved over the bowl, shining up from and also moving in the depths of the water therein. "See!
Page 24 - When the coarse thread is prepared, they put it into a frame about six feet square, and, instead of a shuttle, they thrust through the thread with a long cane, having a large string through the web, which they shift at every second course of the thread.
Page 348 - ... that in turn mature the seeds and perfect the year in autumn. By means of this arrangement no ceremonial is ever performed and no council ever held in which there is the least doubt as to the position which a member of a given clan shall occupy in it, for according to the season in which the ceremonial is held, or according to the reason for which a council is convened, one or another of the clan groups of one or another of the regions will take precedence for the time; the natural sequence being,...
Page 357 - Everywhere were unfinished creatures, crawling like reptiles one over another in filth and black darkness, crowding thickly together and treading each other, one spitting on another or doing other indecency, insomuch that loud became their murmurings and lamentations, until many among them sought to escape, growing wiser and more manlike.
Page 347 - The west is known as the blue world, not only because of the blue or gray twilight at evening, but also because westward from Zuniland lies the blue Pacific. The south is designated as red, it being the region of summer and of fire, which is red; and for an obvious reason the east is designated white (like dawn light); while the upper region is manycolored, like the sunlight on the clouds, and the lower region black, like...
Page 25 - ... they plant two stakes in the ground, about a yard and a half asunder, and having stretched a cord from the one to the other, they fasten their threads of bark double to this cord, and then interweave them in a curious manner into a cloak, of about a yard square, with a wrought border round the edges.
Page 23 - The plant is perennial, which renders the annual planting of it altogether unnecessary. Out of the root and stalk of this plant, when it is fresh, comes a white milky juice, which is somewhat poisonous. Sometimes the fishing tackle of the Indians consists entirely of this hemp...