Fine dressing was not confined to the Mexicans. Other Amerinds gave some attention to their personal appearance as well as the tribes of Mexico. In the following description by a Miss Powell, who visited an Iroquois council on Buffalo Creek, in 1785, of Captain David, if the worthy Captain had been described as a “lord,” and Miss Powell had been less skeptical about his ablutions, he might easily have ranked with some of the “lords” of Anahuac who are so conspicuous in the charming works of Prescott. Miss Powell declared, “that the Prince of Wales did not bow with more grace than ‘Captain David.’ He spoke English with propriety. His person was as tall and fine as it was possible to imagine; his features handsome and regular, with a countenance of much softness; his complexion not disagreeably dark, and, said Miss Powell, ‘I really believe he washes his face.’... His hair was shaved off, except a little on top of his head, which, with his ears, was painted a glowing red. Around his head was a fillet of silver from which two strips of black velvet, covered with silver beads and brooches, hung over the left temple. A ‘foxtail feather’ in his scalp-lock and a black one behind each ear waved and nodded as he walked, while a pair of immense silver ear-rings hung down to his shoulders. He wore a calico shirt, the neck and shoulders thickly covered with silver brooches, the sleeves confined above the elbows with broad silver bracelets engraved with the arms of England, while four smaller ones adorned his wrists. Around his waist was a dark scarf lined with scarlet which hung to his feet, while his costume was completed by neatly fitting blue cloth leggins, fastened with an ornamental garter below the knee.”[118] This elegant gentleman belonged to no vanished or mysterious race; he was a modern Iroquois. Undoubtedly his ancestors had, many of them, with the means at their command, dressed with equal splendour, and we may wonder what kind of a description of them we would have had from the romantic Spaniards if they had happened to meet with them. Even this well-balanced American lady was considerably overcome, for she says: “Captain David made the finest appearance I ever saw in my life.” About this same time, or to be accurate, in 1776, Father Escalante met with Amerinds in Utah whose dress was very different. “Their dress,” he says, “manifests great poverty; the most decent which they wear is a coat or shirt of deerskin, and big moccasins of the same in winter; they have dresses made of hare and rabbit skin.”[119] In the latter we recognise the same twisted skin garments that are still used, or were a few years ago, by the Pai Utes and the Mokis. In central Georgia in Soto’s time the women wore a kind of shawl, “for covering, wearing one about the body from the waist downward, and another over the shoulder with the right arm left free.”[120] Spinning and weaving were long supposed, by those who had not investigated, to be practised only by