A home geography of New York city . home, and her teachers wereher mother and grandmother. They taught her sewing, cooking,housekeeping, nursing, farming, and In the Museum of Natural History youmay see the Indian girls needles, which were boneand stone awls. Her threadwas made of the small sinewsof animals, and her cloth was b*^ne Awl, the Indian J 1 • T i 1 i- Girls Nkedle deerskin, instead or em-broidering with pretty silk, as girls do nowadays, sheornamented her work with porcupine quills and wam-pum. She began her sewing les-sons by making for her fathertobacco pouch
A home geography of New York city . home, and her teachers wereher mother and grandmother. They taught her sewing, cooking,housekeeping, nursing, farming, and In the Museum of Natural History youmay see the Indian girls needles, which were boneand stone awls. Her threadwas made of the small sinewsof animals, and her cloth was b*^ne Awl, the Indian J 1 • T i 1 i- Girls Nkedle deerskin, instead or em-broidering with pretty silk, as girls do nowadays, sheornamented her work with porcupine quills and wam-pum. She began her sewing les-sons by making for her fathertobacco pouches, and also bagsin which he carried samp whenhe went hunting. Then she *; made moccasins and leggings, and felt very p proud when she could sew on the wampum in pretty patterns. She was taught to weave \ a kind of cloth out of vegetable fibers, and to make mats, baskets, and fishing nets. Moccasins Cooking. The Indian girls cooking lessons were very different from yours. The housekeeper had pots of soapstone and clay, which 123. Bag eok PipeAND Tobacco
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