small child. The complexion of all was very fair, and white,
without any intermixture of the copper colour. Their eyes
were blue; their hair auburn, and fine. The teeth were very
white, their stature was delicate, about the size of the
whites of the present day. The man was wrapped in 14 dressed
deer skins. The 14 deer skins were wrapped in what those
present called blankets. They were made of bark, like those
found in the cave in White county. The form of the baskets
which inclosed them, was pyramidal, being larger at the
bottom, and declining to the top. The heads of the skeletons,
from the neck, were above the summits of the blankets.[10]

SIEVES AND STRAINERS.

It is apparent that baskets of open construction were employed as sieves
in pre-Columbian as well as in post-Columbian times. Almost any basket
could be utilized on occasion for separating fine from coarse particles
of food or other pulverulent substances, but special forms were
sometimes made for the purpose, having varying degrees of refinement to
suit the material to be separated.

Bartram mentions the use of a sieve by the Georgia Indians in straining
a "cooling sort of jelly" called conti, made by pounding certain roots
in a mortar and adding water.

Butel-Dumont describes the sieves and winnowing fans of the Louisiana
Indians. The Indian women, he says, make very fine sieves--

With the skin which they take off of the canes; they also
make some with larger holes, which serve as bolters, and
still others without holes, to be used as winnowing fans. * *
* They also make baskets very neatly fashioned, cradles for
holding maize; and with the tail feathers of turkeys, which
they have much skill in arranging, they make fans not only
for their own use, but which even our French women do not
disdain to use.[11]

Le Page Du Pratz says that "for sifting the flour of their maiz, and
for other uses, the natives make sieves of various finenesses of the splits
of cane;"[12] and a similar use by the Indians of Virginia is recorded by
John Smith:

They use a small basket for their Temmes, then pound againe
the great, and so separating by dashing their hand in the
basket, receive the flowr in a platter of wood scraped to
that forme with burning and shels.[13]

From Hakluyt we have the following:

Their old wheat they firste steepe a night in hot water, and
i