Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains and the manners and customs of modern savages (1892)
Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 511
althoughsouth sea Fish-hook, entirely by hand and without any loom ormachinery.-)- But their principal manufacture was a kind ofcloth, made from bark, and of which there were three varieties,obtained respectively from the paper-mulberry, which was thebest, the bread-fruit tree, and a kind of fig.… … BARK-CLOTH. 475 because it resisted water, which they did not. All threekinds of cloth were made in the same way, the differencebetween them being only in the material. When the treeswere of a proper size, that is to say, about six or eight feethigh, and somewhat thicker than a mans thumb, they…
Archaeology · Indigenous peoples
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