n the morning pounding yt in a morter, they use a small
baskett for the boulter or searser, and when they have syfted
fourth the finest, they pound againe the great, and so
separating yt by dashing their hand in the baskett, receave
the flower in a platter of wood, which, blending with water,
etc.[14]

CRADLES.

That cradles of textile construction were used by the mound-builders may
be taken for granted. The following is from Du Pratz, who is speaking of
the work of the inhabitants of the lower Mississippi:

This cradle is about two feet and a half long, nine inches
broad. It is skillfully made of straight canes of the length
desired for the cradle, and at the end they are cut in half
and doubled under to form the foot. The whole is only half a
foot high. This cradle is very light, weighing only two
pounds. * * * The infant being rocked lengthwise, its head is
not shaken as are those who are rocked from side to side, as
in France. * * * The cradle is rocked by means of two ends of
canes, which make two rollers.[15]

SHIELDS.

Woven targets or shields would seem to be rather novel objects, but such
are mentioned by John Smith, who used those belonging to friendly
Indians in an encounter on the Chesapeake:

Here the Massawomek Targets stood vs in good stead, for vpon
Mosco's words we had set them about the forepart of our Boat
like a forecastle, from whence we securely beat the Salvages
from off the plaine without any hurt. * * * Arming ourselues
with these light Targets (which are made of little small
sticks woven betwixt strings of their hempe and silke grasse,
as is our cloth, but so firmly that no arrow can possibly
pierce them).[16]

[6] Hist. of Carolina, etc., John Lawson. London, 1714, pp.
307, 308.

[7] History of the American Indians. London, 1775, p. 424.

[8] Ibid., p. 424.

[9] Hist. Louisiana. English translation, London, 1763, vol.
II, pp. 227-228.

[10] Nat. and Abor. Hist. of Tenn., John Haywood. Nashville,
1823, pp. 191-192.

[11] Op. cit., vol. I, p. 154.

[12] Op. cit., vol. II, p. 226.

[13] Hist. Virginia, John Smith. Richmond, 1819, p. 127.

[14] Hist. of Travaile into Virginia: Win. Strachey, Hakluyt
Society, Lond., 1844, vol. VI, p. 73.

[15] Hist. Louisiana, vol. II, pp. 310, 311.

[16] Op. cit., p. 185.

MATTING.

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