... 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... Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States - Page 16by William Henry Holmes - 1896 - 44 pagesFull view - About this book
| Archibald Loudon - Indian captivities - 1811 - 364 pages
...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...make the outside basket about a foot deep, a foot and a half broad, and almost a yard long. The Indians, by reason of our supplying them so cheap with every... | |
| 1896 - 676 pages
...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...deep, a foot and an half broad, and almost a yard long.'2 This statement could in most respects be made with equal truth and propriety of the Cherokee... | |
| Anthropology - 1906 - 852 pages
...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...make the outside basket about a foot deep, a foot and a half broad, and almost a yard long . . . Formerly, those baskets which the Cheerake made were so... | |
| Anthropology - 1906 - 856 pages
...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...make the outside basket about a foot deep, a foot and a half broad, and almost a yard long . . . Formerly, those baskets which the Cheerake made were so... | |
| John Reed Swanton - Indians of North America - 1946 - 1106 pages
...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...baskets, contained within each other. Their dimensions nre different, but they usually make the outside basket about a foot deep, a foot and a half broad,... | |
| Theda Perdue - History - 1998 - 270 pages
...beautiful variety of pleasing figures; and, though for the space of two inches below the upper edges of each basket, it is worked into one, through the...other parts they are worked asunder, as if they were joined atop by strong cement." Dyes for baskets included bloodroot, walnut bark, and butternut. Rectangular... | |
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