Beothuk and Micmac . DAUGHTER OF JOHN PAUL, M I CM AC-MONTAGN AIS OFBADGERS BROOK. IN CARIBOU-SKIN COAT SPECK—BEOTHUK AND MICMAC. MANS COAT OF CARIBOU-SKIN WITH THE HAIR ON AND WITH BUTTONS OF CARIBOU-ANTLER: USED IN WINTER BY THE BADGERS BROOK BAND OF MICMAC W E A V I N G 37 pregnated with spruce, pine, or alder bark,during the process of tanning ^^ For a people with rather crude industries,it seems unusual to find them practisingweaving. Upon a loom {eldaxte gan, weav-ing instrument^^) made of wood with from20 to 30 holes in the bars between the ver-tical apertures (pi. xix), the women weave
Beothuk and Micmac . DAUGHTER OF JOHN PAUL, M I CM AC-MONTAGN AIS OFBADGERS BROOK. IN CARIBOU-SKIN COAT SPECK—BEOTHUK AND MICMAC. MANS COAT OF CARIBOU-SKIN WITH THE HAIR ON AND WITH BUTTONS OF CARIBOU-ANTLER: USED IN WINTER BY THE BADGERS BROOK BAND OF MICMAC W E A V I N G 37 pregnated with spruce, pine, or alder bark,during the process of tanning ^^ For a people with rather crude industries,it seems unusual to find them practisingweaving. Upon a loom {eldaxte gan, weav-ing instrument^^) made of wood with from20 to 30 holes in the bars between the ver-tical apertures (pi. xix), the women weavepack-straps {, carryingstrap), shown in ,a, ft;xxi (compare, inthe Cape Breton dialect of Micmac, Ijkxadau) belts and * The materialemployed in weaving, before sheep wool cameinto use, was caribou wool. To obtain thewool it was combed from the hide, three-fourths of a pound usualty coming from oneskin. Bear, beaver, otter, and hare skins,they say, also furnished wool of an inferiorsort. When combed and stretched the woolwas spun on a wooden spindle {miman-JaTon, spinninginstrument^^), which wastwir
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