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painted than usual. A brief description of one 

 will serve to portray the other three. Tailors 

 are entirely unknown in the land of the red- 

 skin ; a small piece of blanket or fur, tied round 

 the waist, constitutes the court, evening, and 

 morning costume of both chief and subject. 



My crew were kilted with pieces of scarlet 

 blanket. Imagine, if you can, a dark swarthy cop- 

 per-coloured figure leaning on a canoe-paddle, his 

 jet-black hair hanging down nearly to the middle 

 of his back, the front hair being clipped close in 

 a straight line across the forehead. Neither 

 beard, whisker, nor moustache ever adorns the 

 face of the redskin, the hair being tweezered out 

 by squaws in early life, and thus destroyed. A 

 line of vermilion extends from the centre of the 

 forehead to the tip of the nose, and from this 

 ' trunk line' others radiate over and under the 

 eyes and across the cheeks. Between these red 

 lines white and blue streaks alternately fill the 

 interstices. A similar pattern ornaments chest, 

 arms, and back, the frescoing being artistically 

 arranged to give apparent width to the chest; 

 the legs and feet are naked. A ' fire-bag,' made 

 from the skin of the medicine- otter, elaborately 

 decorated with beads, scarlet cloth, bells, and 

 brass buttons, slung round the neck by a broad 



