North American Indians of the Plains . d of bodkins, a piece of sinew,and a knife. Bodkins were sometimes carried in smallbeaded cases as shown in the exhibit. The Use of Rawhide. In the use of rawhide forbinding and hafting, the Plains tribes seem almostunique. When making mauls and stone-headed clubsa piece of green or wet hide is firmly sewed on and asthis dries its natural shrinkage sets the parts is nicely illustrated in saddles. Thus, rawhidehere takes the place of nails, twine, cement, etc., in othercultures. The Parf leche. A number of characteristic bagswere made of rawhid
North American Indians of the Plains . d of bodkins, a piece of sinew,and a knife. Bodkins were sometimes carried in smallbeaded cases as shown in the exhibit. The Use of Rawhide. In the use of rawhide forbinding and hafting, the Plains tribes seem almostunique. When making mauls and stone-headed clubsa piece of green or wet hide is firmly sewed on and asthis dries its natural shrinkage sets the parts is nicely illustrated in saddles. Thus, rawhidehere takes the place of nails, twine, cement, etc., in othercultures. The Parf leche. A number of characteristic bagswere made of rawhide, the most conspicuous being theparfleche. Its simplicity of construction is inspiring andits usefulness scarcely to be over-estimated. The ap-proximate form for a parfleche is shown in Fig. 23,and its completed form in Fig. 24. The side outlines asin Fig. 23 are irregular and show great variations,none of which can be taken as certainly fill the parfleche, it is opened out as in Fig. 23, and INDIANS 01 l in. PLAINS. Fig. 23. Parfleche Pattern.
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