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Updated: April 30, 2025
The very pictures hanging on the wall engraved likenesses of the great masters Mozart and Beethoven had their frames of well-woven willow twigs; and the rack which held the books and sheets of music was ornamented on each side with raised wreaths of flowers wrought by deft hands from the same pliant material. At the piano, in the centre of the room, sat Sister Benigna by her side, Elise Loretz.
Here they found two empty huts, containing all the curiously-worked utensils used by the Indians of that district bowls, trays, and dishes, formed of calabashes and carved wood or bark; and beautiful baskets constructed of crabshells, ingeniously wrought together, with well-woven mats of grass and bulrushes, dyed of various brilliant colors.
The view which now comes before me is of a substance so close and well-woven, and of colours so brilliant and dazzling, that other matters in a certain degree remote, though of no less intrinsic importance, and equally entitled to influence my judgment in the question in hand, shall be entirely shut out, shall be killed, and fail to offer themselves to my perceptions.
Further inquiry revealed the fact that all the small dwellings were but storage houses for corn and other foods. Textiles. Excavation brought forth delicate textiles in cotton and yucca fibre, well-woven, and in a remarkable state of preservation silent testimony to the dry climate, and the fact that the dwellings were so constructed that rain and snow were practically excluded.
But it was a well-woven fabric, with a pattern, and of a clear scarlet that the water had not faded. No savage tribe that we had heard of made such fabrics. The guide stood serenely on the bank, well pleased with our excitement. "One day blue one day red one day green," he told us, and pulled from his pouch another strip of bright-hued cloth. "Come down," he said, pointing to the cataract.
And here, too, we bought a number of baskets made in Ambawan, graceful of design and well-woven, though small. Governor Evans offered an escort of Constabulary through the next village, Talubin, the temper of its inhabitants being uncertain, but Mr. Forbes declined it, and ordered the escort sent back.
Is his life a whole; the days as threads and as touches; the life, the well-woven garment, the well-painted picture? Which of two sacrifices has he offered the one so acceptable to the powers of dark worlds, the other so acceptable to powers of bright ones that of soul to body, or that of body to soul? Has he slain what was holiest in him to obtain gifts from Fashion or Mammon?
They are a spirited race, of good disposition, and brave. They wear their own costume, namely, kimonos of colored silks and cotton, reaching half way down the leg, and open in front; wide, short drawers; close-fitting half-boots of leather, and shoes like sandals, with the soles of well-woven straw. They go bare-headed, and shave the top of the head as far back as the crown.
Also did the glorious lame god devise a dancing-place like unto that which once in wide Knosos Daidalos wrought for Ariadne of the lovely tresses. There were youths dancing and maidens of costly wooing, their hands upon one another's wrists. Fine linen the maidens had on, and the youths well-woven doublets faintly glistening with oil.
In place of the eternal calabash here were jars and bowls of baked clay, well-made, well-shaped, marked with strange painted figures. They had pieces of cotton cloth, well-woven and great as a sail. Surely, with this stuff, before long the notion of a sail would arise in these minds! We saw cotton mantles and other articles of dress, both white and gayly dyed or figured.
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