Jan Flora expounded:

A side note: if you ever kill a porkie or find a dead
one on the road, throw an old towel or something on it,
so the quills will stick to the towel. Then give the
quills to your Indian girlfriends. They make earrings
and stuff with the quills. (I wear beaded quill earrings
for "go to meeting" jewelry.)

Wow, never knew that. There's plenty of them on the side of the road
up in Maine, I wish I knew someone who could use them

Oh boy, just did a search on qullwork. Here's a good link for info:

http://www.native-languages.org/quillwork.htm

Here's a step by step:

http://www.nativetech.org/quill/index.php

There's so much left in the world for me to learn!
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Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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