. Bulletin. Ethnology. SwAJiTON] INDIAN TRIBES OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 34*7 Canoes and wooden niortai-s (])L 21) for [)onndinf>; corn \v(m-o hol- lowed out of ])iect>s of wood by means of fire, the fire behig encour- aged by bknving and checketl by means of mud. Other canoes were made of ehn bark. An out-of-doors rocking-chair used to be extem- porized by bending down tlie head of a young tree, attaching it to the trunk and fastening a seat on the outer end. Figure 2 shows a Avooden stick, such as was used in parching, a bow, and a washing paddle, the use of Avliich is probably n
. Bulletin. Ethnology. SwAJiTON] INDIAN TRIBES OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 34*7 Canoes and wooden niortai-s (])L 21) for [)onndinf>; corn \v(m-o hol- lowed out of ])iect>s of wood by means of fire, the fire behig encour- aged by bknving and checketl by means of mud. Other canoes were made of ehn bark. An out-of-doors rocking-chair used to be extem- porized by bending down tlie head of a young tree, attaching it to the trunk and fastening a seat on the outer end. Figure 2 shows a Avooden stick, such as was used in parching, a bow, and a washing paddle, the use of Avliich is probably not ancient. Mr. Paul states that pottery continued to be made until about eighty years ago, and that it was ornamented with designs similar to those on the basketry to be noted presently, though this can have been but partially true. One of the places from which clay was obtained for making these was close to his garden. A single pot of the old kind remained in his possession until the time of the St. Louis Ex- position, when it was obtained by some person and sent there. On. Fig. 2.—Chitimacha implcrafiits. At the top is a woodeu paddle used in wasliin^, in the middle is a bow, and at the bottom a wooden stick used in parching. None of these are very old, but they may represent some ancient forms. the inside, he says, were fingermarks, as if the potter had shaped it inside with the fingers only. He declares that the material did not contain shells or anything similar. The important part played by a monster pot in the flood legend indicates that the art was an old one among these people. Arrow points are said to have been brought by friendly Indians from the north, while the shafts came from a little black bush with hard wood, growing on high land, which yields switches only of the size of a whip. The chief glory of the Chitimacha Indians from an industrial point of view is, however, its basketry. This, thanks to the interest and personal efforts of Mrs. Sidney Bradford, of A
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