Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . which every character of these textures is preserved iswell shown in a number of the figures here introduced. A somewhat extended study of this subject was published in theThird Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, and illustrations ofnearly all the styles of weaving were given. As indicated by subse- Recent Aril logical Discoveries iu the Lmerican Bottom Bullotiu of tin Natural Sciences, March 2, 1877, p. 208. Buffalo Sooiel \ ot 38 PREHISTORIC TEXTILE ART. [ETH. ANN. 13 quent investigations, a
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . which every character of these textures is preserved iswell shown in a number of the figures here introduced. A somewhat extended study of this subject was published in theThird Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, and illustrations ofnearly all the styles of weaving were given. As indicated by subse- Recent Aril logical Discoveries iu the Lmerican Bottom Bullotiu of tin Natural Sciences, March 2, 1877, p. 208. Buffalo Sooiel \ ot 38 PREHISTORIC TEXTILE ART. [ETH. ANN. 13 quent investigations, a number of slight inaccuracies of analysis anddrawing occur in that paper, but they are of such minor importancethat detailed correction is unnecessary. It would seem that imprints of cloth woven in the plain interlacedstyle appear to be quite rare, although it is difficult, from the impres-sions on clay, to distinguish this from other forms when the threadsare closely impacted. In somewhat rare cases the interlacing is soarranged and alternated as to give diagonal effects as in a specimen. Fig. 12.—Split cane matting from Ietite Anse island, Louisiana. shown in figure 13. These effects are peculiar to the interlaced fabrics,not being produced in twined or netted work. It has been supposed that vessels of clay were often modeled in bask-ets, and that the native earthenware preserved numerous impressions ofbaskets. On closer analysis these impressions turn out to be the applica-tion of pliable cloths, or of cords singly or in groups, or of stamps coveredwith textiles or having geometric textile-like patterns engraved on can not recall a single example from eastern United States in which itis entirely clear that the clay vessel was modeled in a basket. Theimpressions of basket work occasionally seen are only partial, havingbeen applied after the vessel was practically finished. I present in figure 13, a small earthen vessel from a mound in NorthCarolina, the entire exteri
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