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is available concerning the use of this headgear, but its frequency in 

 the pictures is no proof that it was an article of everyday wear, 

 especially as most of the groups are obviously dressed and posed for 

 the photographs. Among Owens Valley Paiute in California, this 

 type of headdress was used only as dance regalia. A Moapa example 

 appears in plate 2, b. Kaibab examples are shown in plates 8, 14, a, 

 17, 18, a, c, and 19, b. Plate 20, c, shows a St. George specimen. 



A number of feathers are shown attached loosely to the crown of 

 the hair in two Las Vegas photographs (pis. 4, (7, 5. b). 



A forehead ornament, evidently attached to some kind of band 

 running up the part of the hair, is shown in two St. George pictures 

 (pis. 20, a, 22, b). 



Attention should be called to the striking beards on several Las 

 Vegas men in plates 4, 5, c, and 6, a. When Escalante reached western 

 Utah, probably in the vicinity of Utah Lake near the boundary line 

 between Ute and Southern Paiute, on his return journey in 1776, he 

 remarked that the Indians had Spanish features (not evident here) 

 and wore beards. 



Uintah Ute headdress and coiffure is not unlike that of the Southern 

 Paiute. Some Ute women, however, wore their hair somewhat longer 

 (pis. 28, c, 27, c). At least two men have braids (pis. zy, b, 29, c) , 

 while the boy in plate 31, d, appears to have a small lock on each side 

 of his head stuck through a section of bone. The men's forehead 

 ornament appears in plate 31, b, c. Wrapped locks are shown in 

 plates 26, a, 29, c, and 31, b, c. Plates 26, a, 27, b, and 29, c, also show 

 the forelock brushed up and back in Plains fashion. 



Men's shirts. — A common style of men's shirts seems to have pre- 

 vailed among these groups. The illustrations do not reveal whether 

 it was constructed of one or two skins. A characteristic feature is 

 what appears to be a heavily fringed, V-shaped insert on the front 

 but which, judging from specimens in Powell's collection in the 

 United States National Museum, is more likely a flap. This appears 

 among the Moapa (pi. 2, a, b, c), the Las Vegas (pi. 6, b) , the Kaibab 

 (pis. 11, 18 c, 19, a, b), and the St. George Paiute (pis. 20, 22, a, c) 

 and also among the Uintah Ute (pis. 28, a, 29, a, c) . 



Though fringed sleeves seem usually to have been added to these 

 shirts, a portion of the shirt proper projects slightly as a shoulder 

 flap and is heavily fringed. Long, fringed sleeves appear, for example, 

 among the Moapa (pi. 3, a), the Kaibab (pis. 18, a, c, 19, a, c), the 

 St. George (pi. 20, b, c), and the Ute (pis. 28, a, b, 29, a, 31, d). 



The bottoms of these shirts may or may not be fringed. 



