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PREHISTORIC TEXTILE ART. 



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A detailed study of the border is given in ligure 6, the vertical series 

 of threads being pulled apart to show more distinctly the manner of 

 combination. 



The two pieces just described would seem to corresywnd pretty closely 

 with the garments formerly worn by women and girls of the lower Mis- 



FlQ- 5.— Portion of ni.-intlo showing manner of wo-iving. 



sissippi country, as illustrated by Du Pratz in a i)late facing page 310, 

 volume II, of his Histoire de la Louisiane. His plate is reproduced in 

 figure 7. The following are translations of his descriptions of the gar- 

 ments delineated: 



The women in warm weather have only a half ell (if linihoiirg, with which they 

 are covered ; they foUl this cloth aronnil the body and are well clothed from the 



FlQ. 6. — Analysis of the weaving' of fringed skirt Threads natural size. 



waist to the knees ; when they have no limbonrg they use in the same way a deer 

 BkJD. • ♦ » I. 



When the girls reach the age of eight or nine years they are clothed from the 

 waist to the ankles with a fringe of threads of mnlberry bark, fastened to a band 



■ Histoire de la Louisiane Du Pratz. Paris. 1758, vol. ll, p. 191. 



