The original "sinew" was from the deer. Modern day is wax dipped cotton. North eastern and western are said to have used cedar. It was stripped, dried, pounded and then shredded, then woven. Cherokee used mulberry but this may be after 1600s as I don't believe that mulberry is indigenous to the Americas. Birch bark was used in the north east as well.
A native bark skirt of Baja http://tinyurl.com/yach7xh -----Original Message----- You can get everything you need from animal sources, even without wooly sheep. Sinew makes a good cord, and NA's were known to use it. Bark was also used, but I don't think in pounded form, such as you find in Africa and Polynesia. Kim -----Original Message----- On Sep 30, 2009, at 9:18 AM, cbellfl...@aol.com wrote: I wonder whether bark-based fibers or pounded-bark cloth might have been possibilities. If Native Americans made cord (which I'm sure they did) then there must have been *some* sources of fiber available. I _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
