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A 1905 article by Charles C. Willoughby surveying the textile arts of the New England Indians, drawing on early colonial accounts and museum specimens. It covers splint basketry (including Mashpee pack-baskets), baskets and bags of rush, maize husk and hemp, wigwam mats, twined robes, and turkey-feather mantles. It closes with a detailed description of a twined Indian-hemp wallet embroidered with moose hair (false embroidery), made by Mollocket of Maine about 1778-1785, with a technical diagram of the weave.