Word: twines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lionel Hall--1 to 5, The Bawdy Gods; 6, The Hotsy-Totsy Twine; 8, The Ripping Growlers; 7, 9, 11, 12, Ringling Brothers...
...with whom they first came in contact. In Peru, a great variety of cloth was made. Examples in various anthropological museums show that most of the types of weaving in use today were known to the Peruvian Indians in prehistoric times. Not long ago, there was litigation between certain twine manufactures over a "newly invented" method of winding twine into cylindrical packages. The controversy attracted the attention of an ethnologist, who showed that the method had been known and practiced for unknown generations in the Fiji Islands and Polynesia, in preparing packages of sennit, used in house building...