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The use of buffalo hair by the North American Indians (1906)

Bushnell, David I. (David Ives), 1875-1941 · London : Anthropological Institute · leaf 6

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nt cloth is exactly the same as that of the Pitt-Rivers bag. In form and size, though not in weaving, this bag resembles several collected by the writer among the Ojibways, uear Mille Lac, in the state of Minnesota. The Ojibway specimens, however, are made of European wool ; but the}' have a… … Fig. I.-poktion of the bag. ont tue grealeV part 0f America. Hunter, who had lived for many years among the Osage Indians, wrote, "The " hair of the buffalo and other animals is sometimes manufactured into blankets ; " the hair is first twisted by hand and wound into balls. "J By the different…

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