Memoirs of An American Lady : With Sketches of Manners And Scenery in America, As They Existed Previous to the Revolution V.1
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irregularities, and swaying their opinions. From her knowledge of their language, I and habit of conversing with them,, some, detached • Indian .families resided . for a Wjhile in -summer, hi the vicinity of , .houses occupied , by the more wealthy and benevolent inhabitants. They generally vol, i. g built ( 122 ) built a slight wigwam under shelter of the orchard-fence on the shadiest side ; and never were neighbours more harm- less, peaceable and obliging ; I might truly add, industrious; for... in one way or other they were constantly occupied. The women and their children employed themselves in many ingenious handicrafts, which since the introduction of Euro- pean arts and manufactures, have greatly declined. Baking trays, wooden dishes, ladles and spoons, shovels and rakes; brooms of a peculiar manufacture, made by splitting a birch block into slender but tough filaments; baskets of all kinds and sizes, made of similar filaments, en- riched with the most beautiful colours, which they alone knew how to extract from vegetable substances, and incorpo- rate with the wood.
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