Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . 32 PREHISTORIC TEXTILE ART. [KTH. ANN. 13 A detailed study of the border is given in figure 6, the vertical seriesof threads being pulled apart to show more distinctly the manner ofcombination. The two pieces just described would seem to correspond pretty closelywith the garments formerly worn by women and girls of the lower Mis-. Fig. 5. — Portion of mantle showing manner of weaving. sissippi country, as illustrated by Du Pratz in a plate facing page 310,volume ii, of his Histoire de la Louisiane. Hi
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . 32 PREHISTORIC TEXTILE ART. [KTH. ANN. 13 A detailed study of the border is given in figure 6, the vertical seriesof threads being pulled apart to show more distinctly the manner ofcombination. The two pieces just described would seem to correspond pretty closelywith the garments formerly worn by women and girls of the lower Mis-. Fig. 5. — Portion of mantle showing manner of weaving. sissippi country, as illustrated by Du Pratz in a plate facing page 310,volume ii, of his Histoire de la Louisiane. His plate is reproduced infigure 7. The following are translations of his descriptions of the gar-ments delineated: The women in warm weather have only a half ell of lhnbourg, with which theyare covered; they fold this cloth around the body and are well clothed from the
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