Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 5. — Portion of mantle showing manner of weaving. sissippi country, as illustrated by Du Pratz in a plate facing page 310,volume ii, of his Histoire de la Louisiane. His plate is reproduced infigure 7. The following are translations of his descriptions of the gar-ments delineated: The women in warm weather have only a half ell of lhnbourg, with which theyare covered; they fold this cloth around the body and are well clothed from the. Fig. 6.— Analysis of the weaving of fringed skirt Threads natur
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 5. — Portion of mantle showing manner of weaving. sissippi country, as illustrated by Du Pratz in a plate facing page 310,volume ii, of his Histoire de la Louisiane. His plate is reproduced infigure 7. The following are translations of his descriptions of the gar-ments delineated: The women in warm weather have only a half ell of lhnbourg, with which theyare covered; they fold this cloth around the body and are well clothed from the. Fig. 6.— Analysis of the weaving of fringed skirt Threads natural size. waist to the knees; when they have no lirubourg they use in the same way a deerskin. * * * i. When the girls reach the age of eight or nine years they are clothed from thewaist to the ankles with a fringe of threads of mulberry bark, fastened to a band ? Histoire de la Louisiane Du Pratz. Paris, 1758, vol. H, p. 191. BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. IV i >:<?^ j* / 3ft , / -j . ..# ?v- *l« ? M P ,ji ?..•; ; W If III?A -Ml
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