Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 145
ral America, the gourd for ages has been acommon plant, and has longserved many Indian tribes asa water pitcher. On sea-shores, where the gourd didnot grow, conch-shells wereused instead, their usersbreaking away the outerspines and the inner whorls,leaving within a space cleanand clear. Both… … Gourd-shaped vessel from Arkansas. Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos. W. H. Holmes. 108 ABORIGINAL ART 109 tubes were copied from the cane stems. What at first was pas-sively accepted as nature gave it, was afterward changed a little,
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