Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ohn Smith testifies to the same practices in Virginia as shown in thefollowing lines: For their apparell, they are sometimes covered with the skinnes of wilde beasts,which in Winter are dressed with the hayre, but in Sommer without. The bettersort vse large mantels of Deare skins, not much differing in fashion from the Irishmantels. Some imbrodered with white beads, some with Copper, other painted aftertheir manner. * We haue seene some vse mantels made of Turky feathers, so prettily wrought and woven
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ohn Smith testifies to the same practices in Virginia as shown in thefollowing lines: For their apparell, they are sometimes covered with the skinnes of wilde beasts,which in Winter are dressed with the hayre, but in Sommer without. The bettersort vse large mantels of Deare skins, not much differing in fashion from the Irishmantels. Some imbrodered with white beads, some with Copper, other painted aftertheir manner. * We haue seene some vse mantels made of Turky feathers, so prettily wrought and woven with threads that nothing could be discerned butthe FOSSIL FABRICS. Modes of Preservation. Contenting myself with the preceding references to the practice ofthe arts of spinning and weaving in the various regions of the country, Memoire sur la Louisiane. Paris. 1753, vol. I, pp. 154-155. 2 Ibid., vol, I, pp. 138-139. 3 Historic <le la Louisiane. vol. H, pp. Virgiuia. Kiclunond, 1819, vol. I, pp. 129-130. BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT Pi. II <. si
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