586 TRIBES OF THE UPPER MISSOURI [eth. ann. a 



Winter Dress fur Men 

 Hunter's winter dress of the Plains 



Xo. 7 



Buffalo robe coat, hair inside 1 robe 



Buffalo robe over it 1 robe 



Skin cap and mittens, hair inside y 2 robe 



Blanket breech flap, robe, moccasins, belt knife, and fire 



apparatus y 2 robe 



Dressed cowskin leggings I 



1 pair snowshoes I ' 2 ro e 



SVz robes at $3=$10.50 



No. 2 



White blanket coat with hood 3 robes 



White blanket over it 3 robes 



Flannel or calico shirt 1 robe 



Blanket leggings 1 robe 



Soled rope moccasins 1 



Blanket breech flap | 1 robe 



Skin mittens, hair inside J 



9 robes at $3=$27.00 



No. 2 is the dress of a wood hunter, ordinary warrior in winter, 

 if we take away the blanket and substitute a buffalo robe; or it is 

 worn in traveling, and is occasionally used by hunters in the Crow 

 and Sioux Nations, but the Cree and Assiniboin mostly wear No. 1 

 winter on the plains. Other ordinary dresses are only variations 

 of the foregoing, adding some articles and withdrawing others, but 

 none of them are used when in full dress, on public occasions, among 

 themselves, except sometimes No. 5. All their fancy dresses for 

 dances, war, and feasts have their peculiar marks and distinction 

 in rank; also the robes worn by chiefs, soldiers, or warriors in stated 

 assemblies have their battle scenes painted on them in rude draw- 

 ings, though intelligible to them. When merely designed to be orna- 

 mental the drawing consists of a representation of the sun, made 

 by a large brilliant circle painted in the middle. Sometimes a 

 calumet is pictured, and other devices, such as guns, bows, lances, 

 horses, etc. 



The dresses of the divining men are not distinguished from those 

 of ordinary Indians by any marks, unless they are able and wish 

 to renew the remembrance of their former coups on their enemies 

 by wearing a robe on which they are drawn, but being generally 

 old they seldom make any display in dress, though wearing a cap 

 or piece of bearskin round the head is common with them. The 

 rest of their clothing in summer would answer to No. 1 and in winter 

 to No. 2, abstracting the blanket capot. 



