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the forehead. As is well known, circlets of this last kind made of silver 
were in common use among our southern Indians. There must also be 
mentioned skins of animals with the head on, one of which appears 
with a kind of tassel hanging out of the mouth. The persons who 
wear these are evidently doctors or other principal functionaries. 1 
Laudonniere says that feathers were worn particularly when they 
went to war. 2 Perhaps the most interesting headdress is what ap- 
pears to be a basket hat. 3 We should have to go as far as the great 
plateaus to find anything comparable. Pareja, however, speaks of 
a palm-leaf hat worn by the women, 4 and this is what Le Moyne 
may have intended. 
Turning to ornaments, we find it worthy of note that there is no 
evidence that these people-pierced the nose or the ears except in one 
place, the soft lobe, where nearly all of Le Moyne's figures, both 
male and female, are represented with a kind of dumb-bell shaped 
ornament. 5 Le Moyne says of this: 
All the men and women have the ends of their ears pierced, and pass through them 
small oblong fish-bladders, which when inflated shine like pearls, and which, being 
dyed red, look like a light-colored carbuncle. 6 
In two cases men are represented with staple-shaped earrings, in 
one with a ring, and in another with the claws of some bird thrust 
through this member. The person wearing these last was probably 
a doctor. Says Le Challeux: 
They prize highly little beads, which they make of the bones of fishes and other 
animals and of green and red stones. 7 
Ornaments were also worn about the neck, wrists, and ankles, 
just above the elbows and biceps, just below the knees, and hanging 
from the breechclout. One woman is represented with a double row 
of pearls or beads about her waist. 8 Ribault says that the French 
obtained from the Indians of Florida, gold, silver, copper, lead, tur- 
quoises, "and a great abundance of pearls, which they told us they 
took out of oysters along the riverside; and as fair pearls as are 
found in any country of the world." 9 By oysters I suppose we are 
to understand fresh-water mussels. At least the greater part of the 
pearls among the southern Indians were extracted from these. Says 
Spark: 
The Frenchmen obteined pearles of them of great bignesse, but they were blacke, 
be meanes of rosting of them, for they do not fish for them as the Spanyards doe, but 
for their meat. 10 
1 Le Moyne, Narrative, plates. 
2 Laudonniere, Hist.Not.de la Floride, p. 9; French, Hist. Colls. La., 1869, p. 172. 
« Le Moyne, Narrative, pi. 11. 
* See p. 387. 
» Le Moyne, Narrative, ills. 
6 Ibid. p. 14. 
' Gaflerel, Hist. Floride franchise, p. 462. 
8 Le Moyne, Narrative, p. 37. 
» French, Hist. Colls. La., 1875, p. 177. 
m Hakluyt, Voyages, m, p. 616. 
