 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1925 - 944 pages
...participants in the annual ceremony.32 Regarding the labors of women the last mentioned writer declares: " The women are the chief, if not the only, manufacturers ; the men judge that if they performed that office, it would exceedingly depreciate them." M In fact women anciently, in addition... | |
 | Archibald Loudon - Indian captivities - 1811 - 364 pages
...quicker manner of effecting it — whoever knows any thing of an Indian, will not accuse him of that sin. The women are the chief if not the only manufacturers; the men judge that if they performed that office, it would exceedingly depreciate them. The weight of the- oar lies on the women... | |
 | 1896 - 676 pages
...pouches, broad belts, and the like, which are decorated all over with beautiful stripes and chequers. The women are the chief, if not the only, manufacturers; the men judge that if they performed that office, it would exceedingly depreciate them. " " ' In the winter season, the women... | |
 | William Henry Holmes - Indian textile fabrics - 1896 - 680 pages
...pouches, broad belts, and the like, which are decorated all over with beautiful stripes and chequers. The women are the chief, if not the only, manufacturers; the men jndge that if they performed that office, it would exceedingly depreciate them. * " " In the winter... | |
 | Frederick Wilkerson Waugh - Cooking - 1916 - 260 pages
...survived. 1 Adair writes of the Muskhogean tribes, close neighbours of the Cherokee and Tuscarora, that "the women are the chief, if not the only manufacturers; the men judge that if they perform that office, it would exceedingly depreciate them." Carr refers to the Iroquois as the only... | |
 | Geology - 1916 - 264 pages
...survived.1 Adair writes of the Muskhogean tribes, close neighbours of the Cherokee and Tuscarora, that "the women are the chief, if not the only manufacturers; the men judge that if they perform that office, it would exceedingly depreciate them." Carr refers to the Iroquois as the only... | |
 | Gilbert Stuart - Philosophy - 1995 - 484 pages
...attend their work, and to be taught every " ufeful art that they might not flumbcr in idle" nefs." Vit. Car. Mag. in America, according to Mr. Adair, the...Amer. Indians, p. 423. Thefe offices, however, being charadlereftic of the women, are honourable in them. In Rome, during the virtuous times of the republic,... | |
 | Theda Perdue - History - 1998 - 270 pages
...usually measured about three feet long, a foot and a half wide, and a foot deep.1 6 Adair observed: "The women are the chief, if not the only manufacturers; the men judge that if they performed that office, it would exceedingly depreciate them." 27 In addition to baskets and pots, gourds... | |
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The women are the chief if not the only manufacturers ; the men judge that if they performed that office, it would exceedingly depreciate them. 