The North-Americans of yesterday : $b a comparative study of North-American Indian life, customs, and products, on the theory of the ethnic unity of the raceDellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
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The North-Americans of yesterday : $b a comparative study of North-American Indian life, customs, and products, on the theory of the ethnic unity of the race
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
Indians of Mexico; Indians of North America
Jaramillo speaks of the natives of the first village of “Cibola” as
having clothing of “deerskins, very carefully tanned, and they also
prepare some tanned cowhides, with which they cover themselves, which
are like shawls and a great protection. They have square cloaks of
cotton, some larger than others, about a yard and a half long. The
Indians wear them thrown over the shoulder like a gypsy and fastened
with one end over the other, with a girdle, also of cotton.”[133]
Other Pueblos of New Mexico he describes as having “some long robes of
feathers which they braid, joining the feathers with a sort of thread;
and they also make them of a sort of plain weaving with which they
make the cloaks with which they protect themselves.” In the _Relación
Postrera_, the Cibola dress is described also, and I add it here
because these accounts show so conclusively that the art of weaving was
in full practice in this northern country before the Europeans entered
it. “Some of these people wear cloaks of cotton and of the maguey (or
Mexican aloe) and of tanned deerskin, and they wear shoes made of these
skins, reaching up to the knees. They also make cloaks of the skins of
hares and rabbits, with which they cover themselves. The women wear
cloaks of the maguey, reaching down to the feet, with girdles; they
wear their hair gathered about the ears like little wheels.”[134] I
would specially call attention to the similarity to the costume of
the present Moki, even to the hair-dressing. The Seminole men had a
singular way of wearing their hair. It was cut “close to the head,
except a strip about an inch wide, running over the front of the scalp
from temple to temple, and another strip, of about the same width,
perpendicular to the former, crossing the crown of the head to the
nape of the neck. At each temple a heavy tuft was allowed to hang to
the bottom of the lobe of the ear. The long hair of the strip crossing
to the neck is generally gathered and braided into two ornamental
queues.”[135] The mustache is worn among the Seminole, Navajo,
Tlinkit, Eskimo, and other tribes. Some Eskimo shave a round place on
the crown of the head. Some Amerinds also wear a small beard.
[Illustration: SEMINOLE MAN’S AND WOMAN’S COSTUME]
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