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PREHISTORIC TEXTILE FABRICS. 



This method of weaving is still practiced by some of the western 

 tribes, as may be seen by a visit to the national collection. 



A somewhat complicated arrangement of the threads may be seen in 

 the fabric shown in Fig. 97. It is clearly only a variation of the com- 

 bination just described. The manner in which the threads pass over, 

 under, and across each other can be more easily understood by refer- 

 ence to the figure than by any description. It comes from one of the 

 Northwest coast tribes. 



FOURTH GROUP. 



A fourth form of fabric, illustrated in Fig. 98, is of very rare occur- 

 rence on our fictile remains. 



It is a very neatly woven diagoual from the ancient pottery of Folk 



Fig. 98.— Diagonal fabric, ancient pottery of Tennessee. 



County, Tennessee. Two series of cords have been interwoven at right 

 angles to each other, but so arranged as to produce a diagoual pattern. 



Fig. 00.— From the ancient pottery of Alabama. 



One series of the cords is fine and well twisted, the other coarser and 

 very slightly twisted. 



The remarkable sample of matting shown in Fig. 99 is from a small 

 piece of pottery from Alabama. It has been worked in the diagonal 



