ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS
OF
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
VOLUME XXXVIII, PART I
TEXTILE FIBERS USED IN EASTERN
ABORIGINAL NORTH AMERICA
By Order of the Trustees
of
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
New York City
1941
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The current volume is:—
VOLUME XXXVIII
I. Textile Fibers used in Eastern Aboriginal North America. By A. C.Whitford. Pp. 1-22. 1941. Price, $.25.
II. (In preparation.)
TEXTILE FIBERS USED IN EASTERN ABORIGINAL NORTH AMERICA
By A. C. Whitford
| Page | |
| INTRODUCTION | 5 |
| MONOCOTYLEDONOUS SPECIES | 7 |
| DIOCOTYLEDONOUS SPECIES | 9 |
| OBJECTS FROM SPIRO MOUND, OKLAHOMA | 15 |
| SUMMARY | 17 |
| FIBER PLANTS AS IDENTIFIED | 17 |
| TABLE OF IDENTIFICATIONS | 19 |
The author of this paper has studied thevegetable fibers used in fabricating objectsin the ethnological and archaeological collectionsfrom the Indian tribes of the Mississippidrainage and eastward, now in th