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FABRICS FROM NEW JERSEY. 



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or cords arranged in groups by rolling on sticks, or by other contriv- 

 ances, have been extensively employed. Baskets have doubtless been 

 used, some of which have been woven, but others have apparently been 

 of bark or skin, with stitched designs of thread or quills. Some of the 

 impressions suggest the use of woven vessels or fabrics filled tip with 

 clay or resin, so that the prominences only are imprinted, or otherwise 

 cloths may have been used in which raised figures were worked. 



Fig. 107 is obtained from a fragment of pottery from New Jersey. The 

 impressions are extremely puzzling, but are such as I imagine might be 







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Fig. 107.— From the ancient pottery of New Jersey. 



made by the use of a basket, the meshes of which had been filled up 

 with clay or resin so that only the more prominent ridges or series of 

 thongs remain uncovered to give impressions upon the clay. But the 

 threads or thongs indicate a pliable net rather than a basket, and the ap- 

 pearance of the horizontal threads at the ends of the series of raised 

 stitches suggests that possibly the material may have been bark or 

 smooth cloth with a heavy pattern stitched into it. 



Very similar to the above is the example given in Fig. 10S, also de- 

 rived from the pottery of New Jersey. 



Fig. 108.— From the ancient pottery of New Jersey. 



Fig. 109 illustrates an impression upon another fragment from the 

 same state. This impression may have been made by a piece of birch 

 bark or fine fabric with a pattern sewed into it with cords or quills. 



