Show C i alp G 0 ai f 0 r if t cy N it c lit r F MA L M ill 11 j L 71 F 1 1 I ds ill I 1 1 4 APA I 1 od O once and d only a few years figo ago a large part pan of the savage and semi elvi civilized llred world wine tape tapa but stales allies have changed now new you might hunt a long time before vou ran found adv bentiv except capt in a muse museum you jou would probably have to journey to the wilds wild of A africa lea to find anybody actually wearing i tape tapa but in samoa in en excellent quality Is still aured for the sake of the tourist trade I 1 shall rim now describe their may tt ay of making coto cloth which in my opinion Is th the a a only curious manufacture they hoe haie I 1 so wrote are lieutenant later commander Comman COmmar dei dw jam james cook it at cilitti Ti litti society glonde inlands pacific I 1 ocean can in the diary he kept during his first kovace age around tile the world made ad 1768 71 in H M bark endeavor he proceeds pro reeds all 41 their cloth Is 1 1 I believe made from I 1 fa a e park of trees tile the finest Is made from a plant hah the hey cul CI for no other purpose D dr sol so ander thinks it ft is the same plant tile the bark of which the chinese in tie ike paper of if they let this plant grow grew till it Is about 6 or 8 feet high the ste stem 1 Is then them abolt us as thick its aa one a thum thule or thicker ill alier after this they cut it down led and 1 lay 31 1 it a C certain r tot time in water this d makes be the birk strip off ease the outside of which I 1 Is scraped pea 0 t f with bh a eo h shell shelf aita this thin Is 1 done looks it looks like long lone strips stripe of ragged irmen these they lay IHY together by by nouns means of a fine point made of some a sort of a root to the breadth of la i yard more or r less bud and in length 6 8 or 10 yards yard I 1 or more according to the use it IS for A after it Is thus put tog together ethey it Is beat at out on to its I 1 to proper p cap r breadth and ad fim fineu erms ossi upon along a long square square piece of wood mood with wood wooden e n b beaters c store the cloth being it kept ept wet s all I 1 the time q ahe he beaters are made of hard wood with fill our or square sides aid are am about b at 1 or 4 indies broad and cut into diw grooves be of different fineness finen ces this makes makei the clo cloth th look at first sight eight as 0 if it was s we wove v 11 with ill thread but I 1 the pru principal irad use of ed the li grooves gromen 1 la to facilitate the ben beating thi it wit out in the do ing of which aich they often beat holes in it t or one place thinner then than an other but this to Is easily repaired repair d by pasting on small mail bits and this thin the they y do tn in such mh a manner commer that the cloth chith la Is not the alie least injured mb I 1 hie haul finest sort art when also bleached 1 Is ery bey white and cow comes nearest ell rest to floe fine cotton thick cloth especially line is made b by pasting two too or more thick less nests of till thin loth cloth made for that purpose together course coarse thick cloth c oth and ordinary thin el cloth oth is made of tile the bark baraf of bread fruit trees teem and I 1 think I 1 have been told that tt it 1 la some if times made from cewe the bark ot at other trees the making of cloth I 1 is wholly cholly the work mark ot of the w women in which all cziner ranks make are emp employed their heir common bloom colours w are bcd brown and yellow with which tell they the y dye some a piece just as an thedr fancy leads rhems on view at the american Amp rican museum of natural history in new york city is A a number of am specimens specimen of bark cloth or taps in many localities throughout the tropics of both hem crude elvill civilizations thum lacking both the e and means of nea weaving ving face nae f fashioned hissed cloth fr from the inner bark of certain trees the Allro polynesian and melanes faw W TiC Tase 4 rf it 3 iJ I 1 ian all islands and africa were 1 till I top tapa making countries tie a the he W aliens in of if NO new zealand too knew the art an but with ill them it was um wily only briefly cultivated t e d due t to the scare scarcity ltv of I trees cs ir producing duci n g tile the so sort rt of bark needed and the se voter climate which soon n led to the use a of the strong native flux flax for the manufacture of cloth within the last century tape tapa has be come a rarity ul in practically nil tile the regi reckons where lt ft was wag once 10 a blow dent U but u thanks s to tl the efforts orts of a few interested people crople excellent ellent colac tiona of bark loth cloth have fuels been brought together tt a collections at the awer amer I 1 ican museum include in ill addition to examples es maples of turn from nil all the regions regime mentioned emm examples ides of tile the implements used by various peoples people lit in the man of true of the loth cloth the implements implement include shells for cutting the bark back posting peeling it fr from the sterna is an and scraping top g it the its m wooden en d at slabs she on im w which alie bark was laid for looting beating and me mallets square or round according to tile the locality in which they were used these mallot mallets are em called oil into gromen squares or other olber pat torrel terns of caulous vai lous sizes according to the degree of comaca coarseness or if finen ness efti dele de desired le 1 I it tor for tile the hin had piece of tape tapa ill the african bentena beabe are mad made of pieces of tusk task fIte fastened Bd to but bum has boo handles handler and wrapped about with rat eat tan hawaiian hamilton ruling pers pens for milk mak ing lined I 1 tied designs on tile the top tapa and ad stamped bamboo stencils bomell sometimes an be it in the form of ahall a half cylinder testify to the progress which the benoit Hawa linna had made ode 1 in it alie of tape tapa dec motion they seem also to have love led in bety variety bud and beauty of design A aa to the cloth itself the fill finer r va 11 n tie re resemble I 1 cotton true in soft all ce I 1 nebs ess are biall 1 fl and ud easily flyter torn and very cool 1 in haiola and the tonga islands 1 s cami the cloth 1 th me was glazed it with fill it u sort art of f arnah ubah tendered rendered it rainproof 1 in connection with tile the american III of natural history it should be noted that this institution and tile american kople owe one much to the late prof albeit 8 balckmore hicke re of in ter national reputation who he w ai for far many lears bears the leading spirit of the museum camemo another cloth G gone with tile the extinction of tile Anne american rican bison or buffalo another savage mw I 1 cloth I 1 line haa disappeared to be found only in museums s ilic buffalo was clothing aud and shelter as aa well as 3 food to the american america indian tie he wore mom the but fill falo robe suit and mode made his tepees of the skin and kept his records on oil it the amerle american west followed the indiana indian example example so far as to use the skin for cloth s men of 60 00 wit will remember that in n thir youth tile the buffalo robe rabe wat almost a AM much a part of tile the family sleigh and the cutter as tile the bell bells on the harness in these ds das d s buffalo skin coata co to were the winter wee wear of outdoor men all over the me country james jamea bridget bridger on a of the is giants of f tile the purly days day of tile the american america fur trade the of halt bait lake I 1 ake about 1815 bad and tile the b builder bild of fort bildner on the oregon trall trail in binl mang ing van w as a bom been cartographer it Is said bald he could take a charred at stick from tile the camphire and on a buffalo 0 C 1 ka 0 skin draw a map of any part of the far anel lie he learned the trick from the indians indiana wa etu yawapa p eliat t la 18 american the sioux dialect it means winter iter count riling the indian method of if keeping a ca lendir ilin oglala sa s1 sioux dat Di kota indians indiana eipl exploited itce itin art calendars before our pe present e sent new ew year productions production were seem int in exist existence erce they represented each benr or by I a pictograph or picture inbe labeled with a descriptive unable motto the picture and nnnie name generally sug geates bv some important winter 0 event 01 1 whence ill the name winter count at writing these pictography pictographs drawn on but fill anlo skins skills 1 were I kept in serial metal order the kisti ct trusting abi hi memory to recall the details of the events sug bested by bv the pictures picture s BO 0 identifying tile various fall you epars I 1 in n 0 other ill or w each year had bad a name instead of a dipre ere numb number u and in the ofis let nil Z ember this name 1 I me nas illustrated by a is picture A dakota born in 1853 1113 would 1 an sav that atla ld it birth it occurred it la the a year vow of tile the deep new orr if 1 in il in the year of ill the moon a eclipse the museum a of at amerian M history lately is fortunate tort in having be been able to obtain one of it these threat leles ides complete and ad arts of two out oth erg ere it la Is interest interesting i g to follow these old indian records recarda to trace a the history of 0 the dakota b bv 11 hl lam 0 own we account a of hunting ties tribal wars and mas dacres t the coming I 1 of the white men bet with trailers traders on iclal outbreaks ill fi a dual submission to the stronger power of the all white aiana gojcz government 0 ot and ad 11 and it the I 1 den development 0 P of the indiana relations ofin the united states wilh fill his consequent interest in united states simian poll ties the names of some a ot of the years are tw far us merely amusing others are am berr cry significant A few chosen at nindo dom hlll give a fall fair lit idia of at if the old calendar 2770 smallpox mr used them up winter 1791 92 saw in white woman alo iri ter IM 1797 beaver emall mine come winter 1793 first frew firearms freweard earm to issue bane winter 1803 11 horse foot folot iron they my ay brought home winter this commee a boam mw orates ica the it first t horseshoe swa been by the indiana it was no on is ft stolen horse horm I 1 1821 a slur justad by with tell loud noise III word not b house I 1 deal made mad win 11 ter 1811 drunk di unk fight kill n later |