Textile Fibers used in Eastern Aboriginal North America

Published in 1941, this work reports the identifications and remarks on fiber samples from collections in different museums using various methods for the determination of the fiber. The research was made public after studying the vegetable fibers used in fabricating objects in the ethnological and archaeological collections from the Indian tribes of the Mississippi drainage and eastward. Contents include: Introduction Monocotyledonous Species Diocotyledonous Species Objects From Spiro Mound, Oklahoma Summary Fiber Plants as Identified Table of Identifications