Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 147
arex root, easily divided into threads at once slenderand strong.1 It is interesting to observe the limitation imposed upon aprimitive designer by the qualities of the leaf, shell, or cane in hishands, the way in which these qualities point him to the forms inwhich he may excel. Of this we have… … Bilhoola basket of wo^en cedar bast. B^s^et work of NorthAmerican Aborigines. Otis T. Mason. great cedar {Thuja gigantea) grows in the greatest abundance,and its bast furnishes a textile material of the greatest value.Here in the use of this pliable material the savages seem for thefirst time to…
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