 Jersey. \. taffs, but rolled the filaments upon their bare thighs, and made thread and strings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black, etc., and afterwards worked them into stuffs with a great deal of ingenuity. * * * Sometimes the fishing tackle...  Annual Reports - Page 231896Full view - About this book
 | Pehr Kalm - Atlantic States - 1771 - 368 pages
...and ftrings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black, &c. and afterwards worked them into ftuffs, with a great deal of ingenuity. The plant is perennial,...which renders the annual planting of it altogether unnecefTary. Out of the root and ftalk of this plant, when it is frefh, comes a white milky juice,... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1812 - 914 pages
...and firings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black, &c. and afterwards worked them into fluffs, with a great deal of ingenuity. The plant is perennial,...which renders the annual planting of it altogether unneceffary. Out of the root and ftalk of this plant, when it is frefh, comes a white milky juice,... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...filaments on their bare thighs. The threads or strings thus formed, they died red, yellow, black, &c. ; and afterwards worked them into stuffs, with a great deal of ingenuity. See Pinkerton't Coll. part liv. p. 644. 3837. [ 22.] In Barbary, the women alone are still employed... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1891 - 576 pages
...of spinning-wheels or distaffs, but rolled the filaments upon their bare thighs, and made thread and strings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black,...worked them into stuffs with a great deal of ingenuity. . . . Sometimes the fishing-tackle of the Indians consists entirely of this hemp." Capt. John Smith,... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott - Algonquian Indians - 1881 - 586 pages
...135. — New Jersey. \ . taffs, but rolled the filaments upon their bare thighs, and made thread and strings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black,...worked them into stuffs with a great deal of ingenuity. * * * Sometimes the fishing tackle of the Indians consists entirely of this hemp." If such fibrous... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott - Geology - 1881 - 586 pages
...135. — New Jersey. \. taffs, but rolled the filaments upon their bare thighs, and made thread and strings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black,...worked them into stuffs with a great deal of ingenuity. * * * Sometimes the fishing tackle of the Indians consists entirely of this hemp." If such fibrous... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott, Henry Carvill Lewis - Geology - 1881 - 580 pages
...135. — New Jersey. \. taffs, but rolled the filaments upon their bare thighs, and made thread and strings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black,...worked them into stuffs with a great deal of ingenuity. * * * Sometimes the fishing tackle of the Indians consists entirely of this hemp." If such fibrous... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott - Geology - 1881 - 584 pages
...DC, 1878. .cv, I 1wihc taffs, but rolled the filaments upon their bare thighs, and made thread and strings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black,...worked them into stuffs with a great deal of ingenuity. * * * Sometimes the fishing tackle of the Indians consists entirely of this hemp." If such fibrous... | |
 | William Martin Beauchamp - Social Science - 1905 - 282 pages
...of spinningwheels nor distaffs, but rolled the filaments upon their bare thighs, and made thread and strings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black,...them into stuffs, with a great deal of ingenuity. Kalm, 1 :412 Of this art among the Iroquois De la Potherie said : " The old men and those who can not... | |
 | 1905 - 544 pages
...of spinningwheels nor distaffs, but rolled the filaments upon their bare thighs, and made thread and strings of them, which they dyed red, yellow, black,...them into stuffs, with a great deal of ingenuity. Kalm, i :412 Of this art among the Iroquois De la Potherie said : " The old men and those who can not... | |
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