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Skeleton 248 had been dressed in a skirt of finely woven cloth extending 

 from the waist to the knees, to which had been sewn pearls, bears'- 

 teeth, and other ornaments. Plate LXXXI shows a copper plate which 

 is entirely covered with imprints of cloth. Some of the threads and 

 fibres are still adhering. Fig. 72 illustrates various examples of textiles. 

 Those in a-e inclusive represent the fabric in approximately actual 

 size. The left-hand drawings show the details of the weaving consider- 

 ably enlarged. The specimens a, b, g, h, and i, are all twine-woven. 

 In a the method of holding the warps in alternating pairs produces a 

 lattice-like open-work effect. In g and h an open texture is achieved 



Fig. 68. 

 Human Effigy Carved from Ivory or Shell from One of the Altars. 



by a relatively wide spacing of the warps. The "watered" appearance 

 of i is due, as is brought out in the illustration, to a skilful weaving of 

 warps during the twining process; c is twilled, the order being over one 

 and under two; / is a plain close weave with primitive re-entering 

 selvage, which lacks an edge cord; b and e are fine examples of coiled 

 netting. 



Willoughby has made a stud}*- of the weaving of the Hopewell people. 

 Concerning one fragment from Altar 2 he remarks, "Judging from the 

 finished upper edge, it would seem that, in weaving, the upright lines 

 of the warp were carried back and forth in pairs, the loops at each end 



