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Title: Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery
Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425

Author: William Henry Holmes

Release Date: December 22, 2005 [EBook #17370]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

PREHISTORIC TEXTILE FABRICS

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

DERIVED FROM IMPRESSIONS ON POTTERY.

by
WILLIAM H. HOLMES.

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CONTENTS.

Page.
Introductory 397
First Group 401
Second Group 404
Third Group 413
Fourth Group 416
Fifth Group 417
Sixth Group 418
Miscellaneous 420

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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In the original text, the position of illustrations was determined by
available page space. For this e-text, each figure caption has been
placed directly _after_ the paragraph describing the figure. Figure 88,
which shared a caption with Figure 89, has been shifted down to join
Figure 90. The captions are identical except for number.]

Plate XXXIX.--Pottery, with impressions of textile fabrics 397

Fig.