[147] Some information about items in this category has come to light through archaeology. Where pieces of textile have been buried near metal objects, as was sometimes the case in Indian graves in this region, the metal acted to preserve fragments of the otherwise highly perishable textile industry. [148] Byers, pp. 16-17; Gookin, p. 151; Willoughby, pp. 233, 244-45, 248. [149] Wood, pp. 101-102. [150] One such line was collected by John Winthrop eventually placed in the British Museum. Its length is 13.6 meters; Bushnell, p. 84. [151] In this case, the line itself was made out of bast fiber; Champlain in Howe, p. 115. [152] Williams, p. 137. [153] Wood, p. 102. [154] Ibid., p. 107; Williams, pp. 65, 133; Willoughby, p. 248. [155] Willoughby, p. 248. [156] Gookin, p. 151; Wood, p. 107. [157] Willoughby, pp. 244-45. [158] Samuel Champlain’s narrative in SAILOR’S NARRATIVES—, George Parker Winship, ed. (Boston, 1905), p. 90. [159] Gookin, p. 152; Morton, pp. 142-43. [160] This is the technique for making similar garments used by other American Indian groups. [161] Morton, pp. 134-35; Wood, p. 30. [162] Willoughby, pp. 244-45. [163] Ibid.; Gookin, p. 152. [164] Gookin, p. 151; MOURT’S RELATION, pp. 144-45. “From the tree where the bark grows, they make severall sorts of baskets, great and small. Some will hold four bushels, or more: and so downward, to a pint. In their baskets they put their provisions. Some of their baskets are made of rushes; some, of bents; others of maize husks: others, of a kind of silk grass: others of a kind of wild hemp: and some, of barks of trees: many of them very neat and artificial, with the portraitures of birds, beasts, fishes, and flowers upon them in colours.”; Wood, p. 107. [165] Wood, p. 107. [166] Willoughby, p. 248. [167] Ibid.; Gookin, p. 150. [168] Willoughby, p. 248. [169] Williams, p. 40. [170] MOURT’S RELATION, p. 133. [171] Willoughby, p. 244. [172] Wood, p. 107. [173] Ibid. [174] MOURT’S RELATION, pp. 144-45. [175] Willoughby, p. 151, illustrates one basket, dating about 1675 and made by the Narragansetts. It is a twined basket; the materials are basswood bark and corn husk, the decoration being in the latter. Red wool yarn also once was part of the decoration, but that has been since destroyed. Designs are worked in light corn husk, which forms part of the weft element. Design form is geometric, non-representational, diagonal steps, horizontal bands, and disconnected square spots. Design field covers the entire side area of the basket, which is tall and narrow in shape. Recalling Gookin’s description of zoomorphic decoration, there is reason to suspect considerable scope to the decorative content of this style. [176] Brereton, p. 50, writes of them as being four feet long and six inches wide. Pring in Howe, p. 72. Pring, p. 56, says the belts were “sixe foot long” and made of a snake’s skin. [177] Gookin, p. 152.