Part IV. Of Sv£echanic\\s. 
A BASKET made of Porcupine-Quills. The Ground 
is a Packthred-Caule not Netted, but Woven. Into 
which by the Indian-Wo men are wrought, by a kind of 
Lap-Work.i, the Quills of Porcupines , not fplit, as the 
Perfon that fent it affirms, but of the young ones entire : 
mixed White and Black in Even and indented Waves. 
Efteemed by themfelves as one of their chiefeft Curio- 
fities. 
ANOTHER, made of the fame Materials; but with the 
Quills wrought in Triangular Chequer-Work. 
An Indian COMB. A Stick, whereof fomewhat more 
than one halt is cut into three iharp and round Teeth, four 
inches long. The other part left for the Elandle, adorned 
with fine Straws laid along the fides, and lap/d round 
about it, in feveral diltindt Swaths. 
Cloatbs and Ornaments. An Indian PERUQUE. Made, 
not of Hair , but Feathers, fc. black, grey, yellow, red and 
white : all cut at the tops to the length of about five inches. 
Saving the fore-Lock, which is made of fmall ones an inch 
and i deep. Fallen d to a courfe Netted-Caule of Pat /<- 
thred. 
An Indian MANTLE 5 Alfo made of Feathers. Given 
by Dr. G. Smith. About an Eln fquare. The Feathers all 
of a Brown or Eagle- colour,fmall and wrought into a Caule 
of Packthred. 
An Indian BRACELET for the Wrifi. Made of the 
Scarlet Feathers of the Indian Sea-Curlew (deferibed in the 
Firff Part) Clipt fhort, and woven into a Caul of Packthred 
two inches broad. There are alfo 1 a dozen Tufts of blew 
Feathers in the middle, and two of Black at each end. 
Much like the ufual Bumbaft of black Bits fewed into 
Ermine , which our Englijh Women are made to think very 
fine. 
A Pair of Iceland GLOVES. Given by Fh. Henjhaw Efq;. 
About i a yard long, and ? broad at the Tops.Made of Deer- 
Skin 5 not tan d, but only dry’d, with the Hair on 5 and 
lin’d with the fame. The Tops faced with Scarlet Serge, Em- 
broyder’d with Flower-Work. , made of Leaden-Wyre , twilled 
(as Silver-Wyre on Silk) upon brown Hempen Thread. I 
call it Wyre, not becaufe it is Drawn, which this Metal 
cannot be, but for that it is fo fmall. In the vacancies of 
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