MACCAULEY.] MEN’S COSTUME. 483 
* fabrics manufactured by the white man: calico, cotton cloth, ginghams, 
and sometimes flannels. They also use some materials prepared by 
themselves, as deer and other skins. Of ready made articles for wear 
found in the white trader’s store, they 
buy small woolen shawls, brilliantly col- 
ored cotton handkerchiefs, now and then 
light woolen blankets, and sometimes, 
lately, though very seldom, shoes. 
COSTUME OF THE MEN. 
The costume of the Seminole warrior 
at home consists of a shirt, a necker- 
chief, a turban, a breech cloth, and, very 
rarely, moceasins. On but one Indian 
in camp did I see more than this; on 
many, less. The shirt is made of some 
figured or striped cotton cloth, generally 
of quiet colors. It hangs from the neck 
to the knees, the narrow, rolling collar 
being closely buttoned about the neck, 
the narrow wristbands of the roomy 
sleeves buttoned about the wrists. The 
garment opens in front for a few inches, 
downward from the collar, and is pock- 
etless. A belt of leather or buckskin 
usually engirdles the man’s waist, and 
from it are suspended one or more 
pouches, in which powder, bullets, pocket 
knife, a piece of flint, a small quantity 
of paper, and like things for use in hunt- 
ing are carried. From the belt hang 
also one or more hunting knives, each 
nearly 10 inches in Jength. I questioned one of the Indians about 
having no pockets in his shirt, pointing out to him the wealth in this 
respect of the white man’s garments, and tried to show him how, on his 
shirt, as on mine, these convenient receptacles could be placed, and to 
what straits he was put to carry his pipe, money, and trinkets. He 
showed little interest in my proposed improvement on his dress. 
Having no pockets, the Seminole is obliged to submit to several in- 
conveniences ; for instance, he wears his handkerchief about his neck.. 
I have seen as many as six, even eight, handkerchiefs tied around his 
throat, their knotted ends pendant over his breast; as a rule, they are 
bright red and yellow things, of whose possession and number he is 
quite proud. Having no pockets, the Seminole, only here and there 
one excepted, carries whatever money he obtains from time to time in. 
a knotted corner of one or more of his handkerchiefs. 

Fic. 61. Seminole costume. 
