Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware (1910)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 · Framingham, Boston : Old America Company · leaf 325
s piece here was ever usedfor any other purpose than a settle. We arrive in these pieces at the pineperiod and the simpler construction of the humble home. The date is1730-1780. We give a long range of years because these articles continuedto be made thirty or forty years each side of the middle of… … IN this picture the figures are seated on a pine settle, with their feetupon a mat made of corn husks. It is said that the knowledge of mats ofthis character was derived from the Indians. The material was unlimited.We have no picture without the figures, although they do not obscure theoutline of…
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