EELLS ON THE TWANA INDIANS. 7 1 



American manufacture are very common for boiling food, whether they 

 cook by a stove, fireplace, or on the ground. 



Pans. — Tin pans of American manufacture are very common for vari- 

 ous cooking purposes. 



Spits and other contrivances for roasting. — A very common spit for 

 roasting fish is made b}' splitting a stick about three feet long and an 

 inch in diameter two thirds of its length, and then tying it with grass to 

 prevent its splitting farther ; all the ends are sharpened, the meat being 

 stuck on the parts that are split, and the other end placed in the ground 

 before the fire. 



Bowls for mixing food. — They use American ones of earthenware quite 

 generally. 



Churns and dairy-vessels. — They have none, as they use bat very little 

 milk, and make no butter. 



Coffee-mills. — American coffee-mills are used for grinding coffee. 



C— Vessels and utensils for serving and eating food. 



Bread-trays^ mush-hoiols, meat-trays. — There is nothing made specially 

 for these things. 



Plates and dishes, pitchers. — Those of American manufacture, chiefly 

 earthen, but some of tin, are almost universally used. 



Drinlxing vessels. — Earthen tea-cups, bowls, tin cups, and dippers, are 

 commonly used, and glasses are sometimes in use. 



Knives andforJcs. — Common ones of American make are quite generally 

 in use. 



Spoons, ladles, and dippers. — Common American tea and table spoons 

 and tin dippers are used quite often. They also make a spoon both of 

 horn and hard wood, the handle of which is 4 inches long, the bowl 

 of the spoon 6 inches long, 4 wide, and 1^ deep, which is quite com- 

 mon, though sometimes they are much smaller and sometimes larger. 



Pipes, pipe-stems, pouches. — Common American pipes and stems are gen- 

 erally' used ; sometimes they make stems of wood ; generally they carry 

 their tobacco in their pockets or in a common bag ; a few of the older 

 ones have pouches adorned with fancy work and beads and similar to 

 a shot-pouch. 



D. — Ornamental and miscellaneous vessels, etc. 



Lamps and the lUce. — Quite often they use American coal-oil lamps. 

 Candles were used a few years ago, and are to some extent now; but as 

 lamps have become cheap they prefer them. Some also use American 

 lanterns, and torches of pitch-wood are very common. However, they 

 use neither candles nor lamps as much as Americans, as they cannot 

 read or write during the evening. 



Pails, basins. — For wash-basins they commonly use American tin wash 

 basins, or tin pans, or sometimes earthen bowls ; they use both tin and 

 wooden water-pails. 



