| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - To Columbus, a part-time weaver himself, these garments represented ???the costliest and handsomest ... cotton mantles and sleeveless shirts embroidered and painted in different designs and colors.???There are a dozen or more references to the fiber in Columbus???s journals; cotton plays a secondary but persistent role in supporting his argument that he had reached the perimeter of his chosen dest
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