She rose, somewhat reluctantly, and followed the woman, whose face was concealed in a kerchief of native cloth.
It consisted of a short petticoat of tapa, or native cloth, reaching below the knees, and a loose shawl or scarf of the same material thrown over the shoulders.
On taking leave of this New Zealander, Captain Cook was presented by him with another piece of native cloth, with the expression of a wish for a cloak in return.
Some of the people were dressed in native cloth, but the great mass had only girdles.
To show his concern, and that he had nothing to do with the theft, he offered Mr Banks several pieces of native cloth as a compensation.
The women wore a petticoat of native cloth, and a broad fillet made of the fibre of the cocoanut husk, with a piece of mother-of-pearl shell the size of a tea-saucer in front.
On its completion the mummy was placed in a house built specially for the purpose, where, loosely covered with a sheet of native cloth, it rested on a raised platform.
Thereupon near relatives would start off at once for the house of the deceased, each carrying a present of native cloth.
Finally, wads of native cloth, saturated with oil or resinous gums, were inserted in the abdomen, the apertures were closed up, and the body wrapt in native cloth.
When all are seated in the Nanga four of the Vere come in, the first carrying a piece of roast yam, the second a piece of pork, the third a shell of kava, and the fourth a napkin of native cloth.
It is generally left uncovered, or at most wrapped in a filthy piece of native cloth, and unwashed for days together--a fruitful breeding-ground for flies and parasites.
It was the art of her ancestors, for this was the shape of their common garment of tapa, a native cloth.
The bark of the young branches was used for making a tough tapa, native cloth, and resin furnishes a glue for calking watercraft.
Among these was a variation of golf, with curved sticks, and a ball made of strips of native cloth; and foot-ball with a ball of banana-leaves tightly rolled.
The walls are decorated with a native cloth, called tapa, which serves the purpose of tapestry.
The walls were covered with tofia, or native cloth, and the floor with a large fine mat.
The men were tall, fine-looking fellows; some had on turbans and cloaks, and all had wide kilts of native cloth, and the women were decently habited in petticoats.
Some of them, whom, we took to be chiefs, wore turbans over their frizzled-out hair, and mantles and kilts of native cloth.
On landing they were escorted to a building and introduced to an old man they had not seen before, and he presented Cook with a cock, and Banks with a hen, and each with a piece of native cloth.
They were fastened on a piece of native cloth, and then sewn to the English pendant which Wallis left flying when he sailed from Matavai Bay.
These curiosities were done up in a piece of native cloth, and consulted before going to battle.
They covered her with some fine native cloth, and conveyed her to a place in the bush, where they built a temple for her.
She and her husband gave, in return for the child, some foreign property, just as if they had received so many fine mats or native cloth.
For the first three days the infant was fed with the juice of the chewed kernel of the cocoa-nut, pressed through a piece of native cloth, and dropped into the mouth.
The dead men having come to life again, the novices offered their weapons and the bales of native cloth in which they were swathed.
Big Chief replied energetically with a scrap of native cloth--not having got the length of handkerchiefs at that time.
Instead of pursuing any of them, Jarwin went straight to his master's hut, where he found him seated on a couch of native cloth.
He remained dumb to the last, and did not even allow himself the small comfort of waving a piece of native cloth to the missionary, as he and his captors paddled from the Raratonga shore.
There, in the neat garden plot they had observed before, a man, in the last relics of a very tattered European costume, much covered with a short cape of native cloth, was tending his flowers and singing to himself merrily.
The King of Fire and the King of Water unrolled a large square of native cloth, which they held up as a screen on two poles in front of their superior deity.
The bark of the young branches is employed in making several varieties of native cloth.
Not many hours after the close of this fight, a few of them came down to the beach carrying green boughs which they stuck into the sand, and placed beside them a peace-offering of hogs and dogs and bundles of native cloth.
He, as well as Cook, received a further gift of native cloth, which, although rough in texture, was agreeably perfumed.
He was covered with a kind of native cloth, and wore his hair tied up in a knot on the top of his head.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "native cloth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
