Another method of ornamentation was that of scratching or engraving the ware after it had been fired. This is seen in figures on pages 120 and 121, from Arkansas. Still another method of ornamentation was produced after the ware was smoothed to its finish, whether coil-made or not, by drawing on it with a point. An example of this is seen on page 103, also from Arkansas. The method that was most employed by the ancient Amerinds, and is used by those of to-day, as well as by most potters the world round, is colour. A slip or wash of fine clay was given to the ware, and polished and decorated in colours before firing. In this way many beautiful results were obtained in all the regions of North America. Almost every colour was used, but white, black, red, and yellow are most common. These pigments were laid on in a single wash, or were applied in more or less elaborate patterns. The Pueblos, ancient and modern, have produced an astonishing variety of designs, and the same may be said of the Mexicans, Mayas, Zapotecs, Chiriquis, and other stocks of the South. A large volume could barely do justice to this subject, but enough has been given here to show the nature, distribution, and trend of pottery making by the Amerindian Tribes.[98] [Illustration: WOVEN MOCCASIN FROM KENTUCKY CAVE] CHAPTER VI WEAVING AND COSTUME The first article of dress of primitive people was not a woven stuff, but nevertheless weaving, like pottery, begins in plaiting and basketry, and is an ancient art. The first clothing, a necessity of climate, was made of skins of animals where they could be obtained, and where they could not primitive man walked in a state of nature. His desire for clothing was one purely of comfort; modesty, as we define it, was unknown. Modesty, so far as it relates to concealment of the body, is the child of climate and fashion. A Breton peasant girl does not mind if her legs are seen, but she is shocked if caught with her hair down or without her cap; one of our own ladies thinks nothing of exhibiting her bare shoulders and bosom at the opera under gaslight, but she would not do it in daylight. On the beach it would also be improper, but there she is not troubled if her lower extremities are seen. In some of the milder climates to-day clothing is scanty, while with the Eskimo in the Far North it is composed of warm furs. Cold was responsible for the first clothing, and is to-day responsible for a good deal of it. The idea of utilising feathers and broad leaves as well as skins would soon occur to a people, especially if they found it difficult to secure the skins, and with these some kind of a string was necessary to hold them together, and if no sinew or thong was at hand the want would be supplied by twisted grass or bark, and this twisted grass or bark then came itself to be combined in the form of mats for sleeping on or covering sticks to produce a shelter.