Porcupine quills

PORCUPINE GAG One unusual forest dweller is a creature which waddles when it walks, runs from nothing and never starves. It has feet like a bear, claws like a badger, teeth like a beaver and inn…

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Porcupine quills, range from 7-7.5".

porcupine quills

Quantity: 3 Porcupine Quills Size: 8 inches up to 10 inches Porcupine quills are used in American Indian crafts. Porcupine quills were folded, twisted, wrapped, plaited and sewn using a wide range of techniques to decorate articles of clothing, bags, knife sheaths, baskets, wooden handles and pipe stems. Imported from South Africa.

This paper includes both bird-quill and porcupine-quill decoration of all kinds. Different methods of sewing quills to leather, splicing, plaiting and weaving, are described in the text and illustrated. The 26 plates include photographs of many specimens. Tribal attributions are given for each technique, and the construction and decoration of birch bark boxes is also illustrated. -- AATA

Porcupine quills were used by Native people of the Great Lakes area as decorating materials long before the introduction of seed beads by the European traders. This seemed to be true where ever this animal was found in the wooded areas of the northern continent. Quills were dyed colors with natural dyes, used in their round state, or flattened and used as a platting material. The most renowned decorative use of quills in the Great Lakes area was and continues to be on birch bark baskets. %

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