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particular from all Indian tribes known to us, but there is every 
reason to believe he is wrong. As worn elsewhere, the brcechclout 
consisted of a belt about the waist and a skin or piece of cloth passed 
between the legs and between the belt and the body, the ends being 
allowed to fall down in front and behind. That the natives did have 
belts is proved by Ribault's narrative, for he says that when he was 
at the mouth of the St. Johns River a chief sent him a girdle of red 
leather in token of friendship. 1 The warm climate of Florida rendered 
additional garments less necessary than with other southern tribes, 
but it is quite certain that they were worn. So far as men are 
concerned, the only direct evidence of this which we have, how- 
ever, is contained in one of Le Moyne's drawings in which the chief 
Saturiwa is represented wearing a long garment, 2 and in a statement 
by Spark, who says: 
In their apparell the men only vse deer skinnes, wherewith some onely couer their 
priuy members, other some vse the same as garments to couer them before and behind; 
which skins are painted, some yellow and red, some blacke and russet, and euery 
man according to his owne fancy. 3 
He adds that the color with which these skins were adorned "neither 
fadeth away nor altereth color" when washed. 4 The one figured by 
Le Moyne is apparently a painted deerskin, but it appears to be 
intended rather to add to the gorgeous appearance of the chief who 
wears it than to protect him from the cold. Women wore a kind of 
short skirt made of Spanish moss. 5 If Le Moyne may be trusted, 
instead of being fastened around the waist, this was sometimes 
carried up over one shoulder. 6 An anonymous writer who accom- 
panied Laudonniere says: 
The women have around them a certain very long white moss, covering their breasts 
and their private parts. 7 
Sometimes this was of skin, for Le Challeux remarks: 
The woman girds herself with a little covering of the skin of a deer or other animal, 
the knot saddling the left side above the thigh, in order to cover the most private 
parts. 8 
And Hawkins's chronicler confirms this: 
The women also for their apparell vse painted skinnes, but most of them gownes of 
mosse, somewhat longer than our mosse, which they sowe together artificially, and make 
the same surplesse wise. :i 
i French, Hist. Colls. La., 1875, p. 170. 
2 Le Moyne, Narrative, pi. 39. 
3 Hakluyt, Voyages, ra, p. 613. 
* Ibid., p. 615. 
6 Le Moyne, Narrative, plates and p. 14; French, Hist. Colls. La., 1875, p. 172. 
e Le Moyne, Ibid. 
7 Gaffarel, Hist. Floride francaise, p. 405. 
8 Ibid., p. 401. 
