. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology : [bulletin] . uii^W^w^ Fig. 1.—The mummy pack and accompanying burials. The grade of culture represented by this work would seem to be veryhigh, considering American products onh, but its equivalent in old-world culture must be sought in remote ages. This is shown in a strik-ing manner when we place the more delicate pieces of Peruvian workbeside fabrics taken from the mummies of ancient Egypt. In qualityof fabric, method of construction, color, and style of embellishment,the correspondence is indeed remarkable. The closest analogy, so far Charle
. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology : [bulletin] . uii^W^w^ Fig. 1.—The mummy pack and accompanying burials. The grade of culture represented by this work would seem to be veryhigh, considering American products onh, but its equivalent in old-world culture must be sought in remote ages. This is shown in a strik-ing manner when we place the more delicate pieces of Peruvian workbeside fabrics taken from the mummies of ancient Egypt. In qualityof fabric, method of construction, color, and style of embellishment,the correspondence is indeed remarkable. The closest analogy, so far Charles Wiener: P^rou et Bolivie, Paris, 1880. TEXTILE FABRICS OF ANCIENT PERU. 7 ( as my observation extends, is with some Egyptian fabrics of the firstfew centuries of the Christian era. With the Americans, as with the ancient peoples of the East, theappliances of manufacture were exceedingly simple, but primitiveweavers make ui^ for the lack of refined machinery by a degree ofpainstaking only permissible with workmen who place slight valueupon time, i^o loom
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