New Type of Spinning in North America
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Article describing a previously unrecorded method of spindle spinning among the Cowichan and Thompson Salish peoples of British Columbia, using a very large spindle held in the hands and a tension ring or chair back to draft the roving. Kissell compares it with free-spindle and sustained-spindle spinning, Tlingit hand spinning, ancient Egyptian and Greek practices, and neighboring tribes, and argues it is the most elementary use of the spindle. Illustrated with a Paul Kane painting (1846) and a 1915 photograph taken at Musqueam.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1916
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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