 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Indians of North America - 1828 - 440 pages
...away by a sharp instrument : the third wrapper is of coarse cloth, and the fourth likewise of cloth, but furnished with large brown feathers, arranged...fastened with great art, so as to be capable of guarding a living wearer either from wet or cold. The plumage is distinct and entire, forming a complete habit... | |
 | Josiah Priest - America - 1833 - 400 pages
...mantle of cloth like the preceding, but is furnished with large brown feathers, arranged and fashioned with great art, so as to be capable of guarding the...the feathery cloaks now worn by the nations of the northwest coast of America. ,' The body is in a squatting posture, with the right arm reclining forward,... | |
 | Josiah Priest - 1835 - 412 pages
...mantle of cloth like the preceding, but is furnished with large brown feathers, arranged and fashioned with great art, so as to be capable of guarding the...the feathery cloaks now worn by the nations of the northwest coast of Ame rica. " It may now," adds Dr. Mitchell, " be expected that I should offer some... | |
 | 1896
...like that of the fabricks of the northwest coast, and of the Sandwich islands. » - • The innermost tegument is a mantle of cloth like the preceding;...now worn by the nations of the northwestern coast of America.0 The Bureau of Ethnology had the good fortune to secure recently a number of representative... | |
 | William Henry Holmes - Indian textile fabrics - 1896 - 44 pages
...like that of the fabricks of the northwest coast, and of the Sandwich islands. * fl " The innermost .tegument is a mantle of cloth like the preceding;...feathers, arranged and fastened with great art, so as to bi) capable of guarding the living wearer from wet and cold. The plumage is distinct and entire, and... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - America - 1897 - 451 pages
...operation like that of the fabrics of the northwest coast and of the Sandwich Islands. The innermost tegument is a mantle of cloth, like the preceding,...feathers, arranged and fastened with great art, so as to guard the living wearer from wet and cold. The plumage is distinct and entire, and the whole bears... | |
 | America - 1920 - 160 pages
...thread does not appear to have been formed by the wheel, nor the web by the loom. . . . The innermost tegument is a mantle of cloth like the preceding ;...the feathery cloaks now worn by the nations of the nw coast of America. . . . The body is in a squatting posture. . . . There is a deep and extensive... | |
 | David Ives Bushnell - Cemeteries - 1920 - 160 pages
...thread does not appear to have been formed by the wheel, nor the web by the loom. . . . The innermost tegument is a mantle of cloth like the preceding ;...the feathery cloaks now worn by the nations of the nw coast of America. . . . The body is in a squatting posture. . . . There is a deep and extensive... | |
 | David Ives Bushnell - Cemeteries - 1920 - 160 pages
...appear to have been formed by the wheel, nor the web by the loom. . . . The innermost tegument is n mantle of cloth like the preceding ; but furnished...the feathery cloaks now worn by the nations of the nw coast of America. . . . The body is in a squatting posture. . . . There is a deep and extensive... | |
 | 1816
...operation like that of the fabrics of the North West -Coast, and of tiie Sandwich Islands. The innermost tegument is a mantle of cloth like the preceding,...wet and cold. The plumage is distinct and entire. The body Hi in a squ.ittiiig posture, with the right arm reaching forward and its hand encircling the... | |
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The innennost tegument is a mantle of cloth like the preceding ; but furnished with large brown feathers, arranged and fastened with great art, so as to be capable of guarding the living wearer from wet and cold. The plumage is distinct and entire, and... 
