 Englishmen, which the Indians manage with a nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs with their right hand, holding the bit of shell with their left...  Proceedings and Collections - Page 109by Wyoming Historical and Geological Society - 1905Full view - About this book
 | John Lawson - Indians of North America - 1860 - 408 pages
...to the Englishmen, which the Indians manage with a nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs, with their right hand...time they drill a hole quite through it, which is a very tedious work ; but especially in making their ronoak, four of which will scarce make one length... | |
 | Charles C. Jones - 1873 - 622 pages
...to the Englishmen, which the Indians manage with a nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs with their right hand,...time, they drill a hole quite through it, which is a very tedious work; but especially in making their ronoak, four of which will scarce make one length... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - Georgia - 1873 - 622 pages
...to the Englishmen, -which the Indians manage with a nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs with their right hand,...time, they drill a hole quite through it, which is a very tedious work ; but especially in making their ronoak, four of which will scarce make one length... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - Georgia - 1873 - 660 pages
...to the Englishmen, which the Indians manage with a nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs with their right hand,...in time, they drill a hole quite through it, which ie a very tedious work ; but especially in making their ronoak, four of which will scarce make one... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1925 - 944 pages
...to the Englishmen, which the Indians manage with a nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs with their right hand, holding the bit of shell with their left, so hi time they drill a hole quite through it, which is a very tedious work; but especially in making... | |
 | Numismatics - 1883 - 350 pages
...describes the drilling, " which the Indians manage with a nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs with their right hand,...tedious work, but especially in making their ronoak." Brickell (1737) is worth reading on this point also. The coinage, so to speak, of this shell-money... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1883 - 904 pages
...to the Englishman, which the Indians manage with a nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs with their right hand,...time, they drill a hole quite through it which is a very tedious work; but especially in making their ronoak, four of which will scarce make one length... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - Indians of North America - 1884 - 62 pages
...describes the drilling "which the Indians manage with a nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually, on their thighs with their right hand, holding the bit of shell with their left." Am. Nat., XVII., 471. 'R. Williams to Gov. Vane, 1637. Narra. Cl., VI., 26. 3 Ibid., p. 58. " Canonicus... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1884 - 644 pages
...describes the drilling "which the Indiana manage with n nail stuck in a cane or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs with their right hand, holding the bit of shell with their left." Am. Nat., XVII., 471. *R. Williams to Gov. Vane, 1637. Narra. Cl., VI., 26. 3 Ibid., p. 58. " Canonicus... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1896 - 1236 pages
...is most difficult to the Englishman, which the Indians manage with a caue or reed. Thus they roll it continually on their thighs with their right hand, holding the bit of shell with their left; so they in time drill a hole quite through it, which is a very REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1894. Fig. 98.... | |
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