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down on their foreheads, cut straight across the middle ^of 

 it, from side to side, and gathered together in a mass 

 behind. 



The costume of the women is more elaborate. I mean 

 of the young women. The old ones, putting aside the 

 vanities of the world you see they are not civilised 

 abandon the ornamentations of youth, and are dressed just 

 like the men. (Triumph of the Woman's Rights movement. 

 Hooray!) The general effect, however, is in their case 

 unfortunate, to put it mildly; since, as they get old they 

 get very fat, and then become one entire network of 

 wrinkles. These old women always reminded me of nut- 

 meg-melons. But to return to the Hiloes : these are, when 

 "fixed to be killing," dressed in a sort of kilt, made with 

 strips, two inches wide, of the inner bark of cottonwood- 

 trees, dyed and stained different colours, fastened to a 

 narrow buckskin waistbelt, and hanging down to within 

 a little of reaching their knees. In front, the strips form- 

 ing this fringe are placed just near enough to touch each 

 other, and hang close to the figure. Behind why, when 

 I was first amongst the Mojave savages many years ago, 

 the belles of the tribe were, in one respect, ages ahead 

 of fashion as set by Paris behind, the particoloured strips 

 are put on one over the other until a result is obtained like, 

 yet far exceeding, that achieved by a most prodigious 

 "dress-improver," but having a much more artistic effect. 

 Their hair is worn "Gainsborough style" in front, "rivulet 

 style" behind, and reaches down to the middle of their 

 calves. The Hiloes rouge with red clay powder, with 

 calcined mussel-shells, kohl, with charcoal and grease, 



