Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14742347206)

Identifier: archivesofaborig03scho (find matches)
Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 67 military stripe, of quill-work, reaching from the ankle to half thigh. To givefirmness, and serve at the same time for ornament, a colored worsted tasselled garteris tied below the knee: (Fig. 3.) At this point hawks bells are attached, whichproduce a tinkling sound in Avalking. The article offered and worn as a substitute for buck-skin leggins, by the trade, ismade of strouds; a coarse blue cloth, red or green, coarse quality; coarse broadcloth,or white or spotted moulton. 24. In female hybrids of the Indian blood, who have been educated and introducedto the refinements of drawing-room life, there is often found some recognition of, orlingering taste for, some particular features of the native costume. There is worn bythem a species of pantelet, the substitute of the leggin, which is made of thin Italianblack silk, drawn over the stocking and slipper, and tied in graceful folds, gatheredbelow the knee. 25. War-shirts, war-coats, and mantles, for use on ceremon