The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 3: Acadia, 1611-1616 — John Shaqi
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 3: Acadia, 1611-1616
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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 3: Acadia, 1611-1616
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
Leurs habits sont chamarrés de peaux, que les femmes passent, &
conroyent du costé, qui n'est pas velu: elles conroyent souuent les
peaux d'elan de tous les deux costés, comme nostre buffetin, puis le
barricolent de peinture en forme de passements bien ioliment, & en
font des robes: de ces mesmes peaux elles leur font des souliers, &
des greues. Les masles ne portent point de hauts [40] de chausses,
parce que (disent-ils) cela les entraue trop, & met comme aux ceps, ils
portent seulem[~e]t vn linge an deuãt de leur nature, l'Esté ils vsent
fort de nos capots, & l'Hyuer de nos couuertes de licts, lesquelles
ils s'accommodent en chamarre les redoublants: ils s'aident aussi fort
volontiers de nos chapeaux, souliers, bonnets de laine, chemises, &
du linge, pour nettoyer leurs enfants de maillot, car on leur trocque
toutes ces denrees contre leurs peaux.
Their clothes are trimmed with leather lace, which the women
dress and curry on the side which is not hairy. They often curry
both sides of elk skin, like our buff skin, then variegate it very
prettily with paint put on in a lace-like pattern, and make gowns
of it; from the same leather they make their shoes and strings.
The men do not wear [40] trousers, because (they say) they hinder
them too much, and place them as it were, in chains; they wear
only a piece of cloth over their middle; in Summer they often wear
our capes, and in Winter our bed-blankets, which they improve with
trimming and wear double. They are also quite willing to make use
of our hats, shoes, caps, woolens and shirts, and of our linen to
clean their infants, for we trade them all these commodities for
their furs.
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