Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . sculptures of Cusco, Uxmal,Palenque, &c. STATE OF INDIAN ART. 441 2. Spinning. Contrary to the primitive and uniform practice of the Eastern world, the spindlewas twirled by the Aztecs and neighboring nations in a fixed cavity, like a perpen-dicular shaft revolving on its gudgeon. The cavity was formed in a small stone orpiece of metal, and when used was pla
Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . sculptures of Cusco, Uxmal,Palenque, &c. STATE OF INDIAN ART. 441 2. Spinning. Contrary to the primitive and uniform practice of the Eastern world, the spindlewas twirled by the Aztecs and neighboring nations in a fixed cavity, like a perpen-dicular shaft revolving on its gudgeon. The cavity was formed in a small stone orpiece of metal, and when used was placed on the cover of a neat box, in whichthe materials and apparatus for spinning were kept; irresistibly reminding one of thework-boxes of the wives of Menelaus and Ulysses, for the self-same purpose. It isobservable, that not a spinster of Anahuac is represented without one of these unmis-takeable indications of female neatness and taste. The process is sufficiently displayedin the various profiles and positions of the spindle, the weight or disc to increase itsmomentum, the wool attached to it, the hollow cones for its lower end to turn in, andthe plaited boxes or baskets, of which one is figured partly open. Fig. 1. Fig.
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