Young folks' history of the United States . ot much of that. The food of the Indians was very simple; it con-sisted of what they obtained by hunting and fishing,with pounded corn, acorns, berries, and a few vegeta-bles. They used tobacco, but had no intoxicatingdrinks till they got them from Europeans. They knewhow to make rush mats and wooden mortars and earthenvessels. They made fish-hooks of bone, and nets outof the fibres of hemp. They made pipes of clay andstone, often curiously carved or moulded. They madestone axes and arrow-heads; and these are often foundin the ground to this day, whe
Young folks' history of the United States . ot much of that. The food of the Indians was very simple; it con-sisted of what they obtained by hunting and fishing,with pounded corn, acorns, berries, and a few vegeta-bles. They used tobacco, but had no intoxicatingdrinks till they got them from Europeans. They knewhow to make rush mats and wooden mortars and earthenvessels. They made fish-hooks of bone, and nets outof the fibres of hemp. They made pipes of clay andstone, often curiously carved or moulded. They madestone axes and arrow-heads; and these are often foundin the ground to this day, wherever there is the site ofan Indian village. They made beads, called wam-pum, out of shells. After the Europeans came, they supplied the Indians W\ ^ fVir U ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ beads,and with iron axesand arrow-heads,and, at last, withfire-arms. But the most in-genious inventionsof the Indians werethe snow-shoe andthe birch canoe. Thesnow-shoe was madeof a maple-woodframe, three or fourfeet long, curved andtapering, and filledThis net-work was. LEARNING TO USE SNOW-SHOES. in with a net-work of deers hide. THE AMERICAN INDIANS. fastened to the foot by thongs, only a light elasticmoccason being worn. Thus the foot was supportedon the surface of the snow ; and an Indian could travelforty miles a day upon snow-shoes, and could easilyovertake the deer and moose, whose pointed hoofscut through the crust. The peculiar pattern variedwith almost every tribe, as did also the pattern ofthe birch canoe. This was made of the bark of the Birchwhite birch, stretched over a very light frame of white °^°°®cedar. The whole bark of a birch-tree was stripped
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