bone-workers

Updated: May 25, 2025

Some of the officers in the different prisons made beautiful trinkets out of beef bones, such as napkin rings, paper cutters, crochet needles, pen holders, imitations of books, etc., and sold them to their fellow-prisoners to take home with them as souvenirs of their prison life. Some of these bone-workers were skilled artists, and could fashion anything out of a beef bone.

A. (Alonzo) Cooper - In and Out of Rebel Prisons