A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . Indian Pottery. titions made of mats and running from the outer wall to the apartment thus made was the home of a family. Furniture and Utensils.—The dwellings had little furni-ture, the Indians living mostly in the open air. Mats andskins served for bedding and the ground usually for seatsand tables. For cooking purposes some tribes used woodenvessels, hollowed out by burning and scraping. They filledthese vessels with water and threwin stones heated in their fires tillthe water boiled. Then the foodwas d
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . Indian Pottery. titions made of mats and running from the outer wall to the apartment thus made was the home of a family. Furniture and Utensils.—The dwellings had little furni-ture, the Indians living mostly in the open air. Mats andskins served for bedding and the ground usually for seatsand tables. For cooking purposes some tribes used woodenvessels, hollowed out by burning and scraping. They filledthese vessels with water and threwin stones heated in their fires tillthe water boiled. Then the foodwas dropped in to cook in the boil-ing water. Baskets made of willow,very closely woven, were used inthe same way. Some tribes hadvessels of earthenware, others ofhollowed out soapstone. Clothing-.—The winter clothingof the red men was mostly made of deer-skin. In summer they wore very little their feet they wore moccasins, or shoes made of buck-skin, which were very soft and pliable and enabled them towalk noiselessly. Some tribes wove coarse cloth, out of. ^^a. Indian Woman Weaving. THE INDIANS, CHARACTERISTICS AND CUSTOMS. 31 which their clothing was made. They often wore a head-dress of feathers. Beads made from sea-shells, calledwampum, were worn as ornaments and also used asmoney. It was their custom when engaged in war topaint their faces in stripes and spots of red and othercolors. Tools.—Their tools were made of stone, chipped orrubbed to the desired shape, or of bone, horn, wood, orshell. They consisted of stone axes, hoes, and other im-plements for domestic use, scrapers to prepare skins foruse, bone needles, wooden paddles for their canoes, andsome other simple implements. The only metal they pos-sessed was copper, which they obtained from mines in thelake region and hammered into shape. It was principallyused for ornamental purposes. Pipes were articles incommon use. These were usually made of stone, hollowedout and pierced with a hole for the smoke to
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