Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . e covered with Mats, or the barkes of trees very handsomely, that notwith-standing either winde, raine, or weather, they are as warm as stooues, but verysmoaky, yet at the toppe of the house there isa hole made for the Binoake to goe into right over the tire. 1 Hist. Virginia, John Smith. Richmond, L818, vol. I, i>. 180. 14 PREHISTORIC TEXTILE ART. [ETH. ANN. 13 Butel-Duinont also, in describing- the dwellings of the NatchezIndians of the lower Mississippi region, speaks of the door of an Indiancab
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . e covered with Mats, or the barkes of trees very handsomely, that notwith-standing either winde, raine, or weather, they are as warm as stooues, but verysmoaky, yet at the toppe of the house there isa hole made for the Binoake to goe into right over the tire. 1 Hist. Virginia, John Smith. Richmond, L818, vol. I, i>. 180. 14 PREHISTORIC TEXTILE ART. [ETH. ANN. 13 Butel-Duinont also, in describing- the dwellings of the NatchezIndians of the lower Mississippi region, speaks of the door of an Indiancabin made of dried canes fastened and interlaced on two othercanes placed across. A singular nse of wattle work is mentioned by Lafitau. He statesthat the young men, when going through the ordeal of initiation onattaining their majority, were placed apart in— An iuclosure very strongly built, made expressly for this purpose, oue of which Isaw in 1694, which belonged to the Indians of Paumaiinkie. It was in the form ofa sugar loaf and was open on all sides like a trellis to admit the Fig. 1. —Fish weir of the Virginia Indians (after Hariot). Of a somewhat similar nature was the construction of biers describedby Butel-Dumont. Speaking of the Mobilians, he says: When their chief is dead they proceed as follows: At 15 or 20 feet from hiscabin they erect a kind of platform raised about 4£ feet from the ground. This iscomposed of four large forked poles of oak wood planted in the earth, with othersplaced across; this is covered with canes bound and interlaced so as to resemblegreatly the bed used by the natives. According to John Lawson, similarly constructed hurdles were inuse among the Carolina Indians. The tide-water tribes of the Atlantic coast region made very frequentuse of fish weirs, which were essentially textile in character. JohnSmith mentions their use in Virginia, and Hariot gives a number ofplates in which the weirs are delineated. The cut here given (figure 1
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