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THE AMERICAN INDIAN
blanket[1] being the most unique example, and covers the entire eastern maize area. The data for the Antilles are meager, but since the natives there made some use of cotton, it is safe
Fig. 18. Ojibway Weaving Frame, Showing the Suspended Warp and Method of Twining in the Weft. Weaving Proceeds Downward. See Fig. 70
to assume a loom. In South America the entire manioc area seems to have been influenced by the Andean region in that looms of some kind were in use. Cotton was raised in many parts for making hammocks, which were woven on a kind of loom.[2] In fact, the loom is a correlated part of the spindle-
