NO. l8 HILLERS-POWELL INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHS — STEWARD 1 3 



in successive pictures, in various stages of dress and undress. Conse- 

 quently, the ensemble cannot always be taken as native custom. 



Children, though sometimes equipped with garments like those of 

 their elders, were frequently entirely nude and are so represented in 

 several pictures. 



Headdress. — The hair of Moapa, Las Vegas, and Kaibab Paiute 

 women was rather consistently cut to a short, choppy bob of about 

 shoulder length. Only the Las Vegas woman shown in plate 6, a, 

 has bangs. Women sometimes confined their hair with a narrow 

 band (pis. 9, b, 14, b, 18, b, c, d, 19, b), sometimes with a basketry 

 hat. The head bands worn by the three girls seated on the left in 

 plate 14,, b, appear to consist of two rows of beads (or quills?) each. 

 The girl next on the right has a band of shells or seeds. Similar bands 

 appear in plate 18, b, c, d. 



Southern Paiute men either cut their hair the same as women or 

 allowed it to grow somewhat longer, parting it roughly in the middle 

 or, occasionally (pi. I, a, pi. 10, b) on one side. Several Kaibab men 

 clearly have braids: the person on the left in plate 19, a; the man 

 with folded arms in plate 19, b ', the man standing on the right in 

 plate 17, b; and the man seated in the foreground in plate 17, a. The 

 braids of the last are wrapped. Other men may have braids which 

 do not show. 



Five kinds of hair ornaments appear on Southern Paiute men : 

 bands ; skull caps ; feather crowns ; feathers ; a forehead ornament. 



Bands, which are unusual, are shown among the Moapa (pi. 3, a), 

 the Las Vegas (pi. 4, a, b), and Kaibab (pi. 7). 



Skin caps, which are similar to those used widely throughout the 

 Shoshonean area to the west, appear in several photographs. The 

 Moapa men in plate 1, b, have skull caps held in place by chin straps. 

 The Moapa boy's cap (pi. 2, d) appears to be similar to these but 

 lacks the chin strap. The Las Vegas man on the left in plate 4, a, b, 

 has a head band rather than cap. The man on the right in plate 4, b, 

 has a cap which apparently has animal horns and ears on top. Although 

 the species of animal cannot be identified in this case, it resembles 

 many Shoshoni caps made of the polls of young mountain sheep with 

 the ears and horns left in place. This specimen also has a chin strap. 

 A similar or perhaps the same hat appears on the Las Vegas man in 

 plate 5, c. A more conical skull cap with chin strap is shown in plate 

 4, a (second from the left) and in plate 5, a. No Kaibab or Ute 

 men have such caps. 



Crowns, consisting of hawk or eagle feathers inserted in a head 

 band to stand vertically, are shown in several plates. No information 



