 Indians (Cherokee) made very handsome carpets. They have a wild hemp that grows about six feet high, in open, rich, level lands, and which usually ripens in July; it is plenty on our frontier settlements. When it is fit for use, they pull, steep, peel,...  Annual Reports - Page 231896Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1891 - 624 pages
...some plants unknown to us." J. Adair, History of the American Indians (London, 1775, p. 422), says : " They have a wild hemp that grows about six feet high...beat it, and the old women spin it off the distaffs." The "seff-soum Wlieat" of the Norse Soyas. Prof. Gustav Storm, Studies on the Vlneland Sagas (Mem.... | |
 | Charles C. Jones - 1873 - 622 pages
...handsome carpets. They have a wild hemp that grows about six feet high in open, rich, level lauds, and which usually ripens in July; it is plenty on...peel and beat it; and the old women spin it off the distaifs with wooden machines, having some clay on the middle of them to hasten the motion. When the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1903 - 834 pages
...was used for weighting the spindle. Speaking of the use of wild hemp, that author remarks that — The old women spin it off the distaffs with wooden...clay on the middle of them to hasten the motion.'' As found on ancient sites, however, there is difficulty in distinguishing such articles from beads,... | |
 | America - 1917 - 942 pages
...Iroquois used such a device as a spindle, but the Cherokee, according to Adair, spun the wild hemp "off the distaffs, with wooden machines, having some...clay on the middle of them, to hasten the motion." Awls made of fish, bird, and mammal bones were more plentiful than any other artifact made of this... | |
 | Frederick Webb Hodge - America - 1917 - 1016 pages
...Iroquois used such a device as a spindle, but the Cherokee, according to Adair, spun the wild hemp "off the distaffs, with wooden machines, having some...clay on the middle of them, to hasten the motion." Awls made of fish, bird, and mammal bones were more plentiful than any other artifact made of this... | |
 | Frederick Webb Hodge - America - 1917 - 974 pages
...Iroquois used such a device as a spindle, but the Cherokee, according to Adair, spun the wild hemp "off the distaffs, with wooden machines, having some...clay on the middle of them, to hasten the motion." Awls made of fish, bird, and mammal bones were more plentiful than any other artifact made of this... | |
 | John Reed Swanton - Indians of North America - 1946 - 1106 pages
...an alterative material to mulberry bark, and, with less doubt, the "wild hemp" described by Adair : They have a wild hemp that grows about six feet high,...some clay on the middle of them to hasten the motion. (Adair, 1775, p. 453.) "A strong double thread of hemp," or the inner bark of the mulberry, was the... | |
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