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    Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425
    Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425
    Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425
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    Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425

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      Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425 - William Henry Holmes

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      Title: Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery

      Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the

      Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82,

      Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425

      Author: William Henry Holmes

      Release Date: December 22, 2005 [EBook #17370]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PREHISTORIC TEXTILE FABRICS ***

      Produced by Louise Hope, Carlo Traverso,

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      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This file was

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      Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at

      http://gallica.bnf.fr.

      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

      PREHISTORIC TEXTILE FABRICS

      OF THE

      UNITED STATES,

      DERIVED FROM IMPRESSIONS ON POTTERY.

      BY

      WILLIAM H. HOLMES.

      CONTENTS.

      ILLUSTRATIONS.

      Transcriber's Note:

      In the original text, the position of illustrations was determined by available page space. For this e-text, each illustration has been placed as close as possible to its description in the text.

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