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In search of buffalo hair cloth.

Publication: Manitoba History
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In search of buffalo hair cloth.(Gazette)

Article Excerpt
When we think of warm clothing in the early Red River Settlement, what comes to mind is probably capots, coats made from Hudson's Bay Company blankets. Few people are aware that families in Red River spun and wove their own cloth, some of it from bison "wool" or hair. Although there are many archival references to cloth production in the Settlement, I have never been able to see an example of this native industry; there are no samples of such cloth in...

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