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The upper figure of Plate XXXIX illustrates oue of these specimens. 

 Other examples have beeu obtained from Roane County, Tennessee. 



A piece of charred cloth from a mound in Butler County, Ohio 

 Las been woven in this manner. Foster has described examples of the 

 two preceding forms from the same locality. The material used is a 

 vegetable fiber obtained from the bark of trees or from some fibrous 

 weed. This specimen is now in the National Museum. 



An interesting variety of this form is given in Fig. 90. It is from a 



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Fig. 96.— From ancient pottery, Tennessee. 



small piece of pottery exhumed from a mound on Faiu's Island, Jefferson 

 County, Tennessee. The threads of the woof are quite close together 

 those of the web far apart. 



A very fine example of this variety of fabric was obtained by Dr. Yar- 

 row from an ancient cemetery near Dos Pueblos, Cal. It is illustrated 

 in Fig. 2, Plate XIV, vol. VII, of Surveys West of the 100th Meridian." 

 In describing it, Professor Putnam says thatthe fiber is probably obtained 

 from a species of yucca. He says that " the woof is made of two strands 

 crossing the warp in such a manner that the strands alternate in passing 

 over and under it, and at the same time inclosing two alternate strands 

 of the latter, making a letter X figure of the warp, united at the center 

 of the X by the double strands of the woof." It should be noticed that 



Fig. 97. — Modern fabrio, Northwest coast. 



the series of cords called the woof by Professor Putnam are desiguated 

 as warp in my own descriptions. The illustration shows a fabric iden- 

 tical with that given in the upper figure of Plate XXXIX, and the de- 

 scription quoted describes perfectly the type of fabric under consideration. 



* Putnam, F. W., in Vol. VII of Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, page 244. 



