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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 
