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These iibers make ven' satisfactory Inrushes, but they are not so stiff 

 as brushes made of bristles. The fibers are not set in a iiandie but 

 are tied in a round bundle a little below the middle, then folded out- 

 ward from the center so that tlie upper end or handle is round and 

 smooth while the lower end includes all the free fd^er ends. Twine 

 is then wrapped in a coil around the upper end downward imtil the 

 brush end remains just long enoui^h to give the fibers play in passing 

 through the hair. The wrapping maj^ be either of fdjer or of horse- 

 hair; in the latter case pleasing geometric patterns are often worked 

 out with contrasted black and white threads. The specimen illus- 



FlG. 40. War headdress. 



trated in figure 41 , 6 is bound witii maguey fiber whicli luis lieen deco- 

 rated with three lines of pui-ple dye, put on after tlie wrapping has 

 been completed. 



Skin Dressing 



The use of leather in the manufacture oi clothing was reduced to a 

 minimum among the Pimas. For sandals, rawhide sufficetl, and if 

 tlus was not to be had there was an abundance of }iicca fiber, which 

 made a fair substitute. For the shields, with the use of which they 

 became adept througli trainini; from childliood, rawhide wasemploved. 

 So the needs wliich dressed leather alone could satisfy were but few, 



