[9] Hist. Louisiana. English translation, London, 1763, vol. II, pp. 227-228.
[10] Nat. and Abor. Hist. of Tenn., John Haywood. Nashville, 1823, pp. 191-192.
[11] Op. cit., vol. I, p. 154.
[12] Op. cit., vol. II, p. 226.
[13] Hist. Virginia, John Smith. Richmond, 1819, p. 127.
[14] Hist. of Travaile into Virginia: Win. Strachey, Hakluyt Society, Lond., 1844, vol. VI, p. 73.
[15] Hist. Louisiana, vol. II, pp. 310, 311.
[16] Op. cit., p. 185.
MATTING.
No class of articles of textile nature were more universally employed by the aborigines than mats of split cane, rushes, and reeds, and our information, derived from literature and from such remnants of the articles themselves as have been recovered from graves and caves, is quite full and satisfactory. Mats are not so varied in form and character as are baskets, but their uses were greatly diversified; they served for carpeting, seats, hangings, coverings, and wrappings, and they were extensively employed in permanent house construction, and for temporary or movable shelters. A few brief extracts will serve to indicate their use in various classes of construction by the tribes first encountered by the whites.