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Identifier: palmtree00mood
Title: The palm tree
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Moody, Sophy
Subjects: Palms Trees in the Bible
Publisher: London : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row Edinburgh, and New York
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with fringes about a foot long of the same material.On these are fastened with the glutinous milk of theCow Tree, (Palo de Vaca, or Galactotendrum ntile),sprays, stars, and flowers of featherwork. 294 PALMS OF THE WEST YIELDING FIBRE. In some peculiarly beautiful specimens of thisworkmanship, executed by Indian women, from thedesigns of Senhor Antonio Diaz, the arms of Portugalor Brazil were placed in the centre, admirably repre-sented on a ground of snow-white herons feathers.* The dazzling plumage of the birds of their countryhas always attracted the Indian women of SouthAmerica to this kind of work, and from remotesttimes they are known to have excelled in feather-work. In the early days of the Conquest of Mexico,history tells mournful tales of cruelty and extortion,in connection with magnificent dresses of gorgeousfeatherwork, which w-as looked upon as the apparel ofroyalty. The Tucum Palms grow in the dry forest land ofthe Amazon and the Rio Negro. * Wallaces Palms of the Amaaon.
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