From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu 31 Oct 2002 - 12:30:46 GMT
On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 03:19 , joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Yes it is. They built their furniture so that they could hang it on
> their
> walls in order to completely sweep clean a then-bare floor.
In point of fact, they hung their chairs not only to clean the floor,
but to dance upon the entire surface of it. Hanging them up was the
function of the pegs on the walls. They made the pegs so they could hang
the furniture. The furniture itself had many other uses, to sit upon,
for instance.
- Wade
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