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flaps falling over the front and rear, and sometimes merely two ornamented flaps tying 

 on like aprons fore and aft and not passing between the legs at all. Shirts of cloth or 

 buckskin are beaded about the collar, over the shoulders, and down the front over 

 the chest, where the head opening is. liuckskin shirts are often fringed at the junc- 

 ture of the sleeves \\'ith the trunk at the shoulders, as well as along the seama of the 

 sleeves. Beaded garters are worn outside the leggings below the knees, and beaded, 

 or (ierman silver, arm bauds may be seen. 



The shirt worn by the women in former times seems to have been 

 similar except as to length to that worn by the men, but the leg- 



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gings were chara(;teristically different. These consisted of a straight 

 piece of buckskin folded around itself so as to leave no free flap. 

 The upper part had a cuff. There was no flap at the bottom falling 

 over the moccasin, as in the case of men's leggings (figs. 2.3, 24). 



The skirt is a single piece of broadcloth, the ends of which are handsomely ribbon- 

 worked in appliqu^ on the outer side. The garment is wrapped around the body, 

 the ends meeting in front, bringing the ribbon-Worked horizontal bands together, the 

 opening being in front. The upper part of the garment is folded outward over the 

 woven belt which confines it. A curious shirtwaist, short and beribboned, is worn 

 outside the belt. A shawl or blanket of broadcloth, handsomely ribboned, completes 



