swanton] EAELY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 347 
Dickenson testifies to the same effecl : 
The women natives of these towns clothe themselves with the moss of trees, making 
gowns and petticoats thereof, which ;ii a distance, or in the night, looks very neat. 1 
Most of the people of whom he speaks were, however, refugees from 
Guale. In his narrative Le Moyne also mentions "many pieces of a 
stuff made of feathers, and most skilfully ornamented with rushes of 
different colors," sent in from the western Timucua by a French 
officer. They may have been those feather cloaks so common 
throughout the south. The women wore their hair long, but cer- 
tainly not in the disheveled fashion represented by Le Moyne. 2 From 
a remark of Ribault it is evident that the men were in the habit of 
pulling out the hair on all parts of their bodies except the head. 3 
They do not seem to have roached their heads like the Creeks. Ri- 
bault says, in describing those Indians whom he saw, "Their hair was 
long and trussed up, with a lace made of herbs, to the top of their 
heads,'' and this remark is confirmed by Laudonniere and in the 
pictures of Le Moyne. 4 In another place, where he describes the 
leading men who accompanied Saturiwa, Ribault states that their 
hair was " trussed up, gathered and worked together with great 
cunning, and fastened after the form of a diadem." 5 Le Ohalleux 
says : 
They keep their hair long, and they truss it up neatly all around their heads, and 
this truss of hair serves them as a quiver in which to carry their arrows when they are 
at war. 6 
He also says, regarding feathers: 
They esteem nothing richer or more beautiful than bird feathers of different colors. 7 
These are represented by Le Moyne on several of his subjects, used 
in a great variety of ways. . One has a single sheaf of feathers coming 
straight out from the knot of hair at the back of his head. Another 
has a number of long, curving feathers in the same place, suggesting 
a fountain. Another has a kind of feather tassel tied to the top- 
knot by a cord or small withe. Many have feathers around the 
edges of the hair lower down, either alone or in addition to some 
of the central clumps of feathers just mentioned. Saturiwa and 
some of his leading men are represented on various occasions with 
small tufts of feathers of exceptional height over the middle of the 
forehead in front, with the tail of an animal hanging from the top- 
knot, or again with what appears to be a metallic diadem encircling 
Dickenson, Narrative, p. 93.- 
• Cf. Hakluyt, Voyages, in, p. 613. "Wearing theire haire downe to their shoulders, like the 
3 French, Bist. Colls. La., 1875, p. 172. 
< Le Moyne, Narrative, plates and p. 14: French, Hist. Colls. La., 1875, p. 17.!. 
» Ibid., p. 178. 
• Gaflfarel. op. cii., p. 461. 
' Ibid., p. 462. 
