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ted, tliat, once swollen by danipnoss, lliey 

 serve to hold liquids, and are therefore light 

 and convenient vessels for the purposes of 

 travellers. 



The dress of many of tlie Pueblos has be- 

 come assimilated in some respects to that of 

 the common Mexicans ; but by far the great- 

 est portion still retain most of their aboriginal 

 costume. The Taosas and others of the 

 north somewhat resemble the prairie tribes 

 in this respect ; but the Pueblos to the south 

 and west of Santa Fe dress in a different 

 style, which is said to be similar in many re- 

 spects to that of the aboriginal inhabitants of 

 the city of Mexico. The moccasin is the only 

 part of the prairie suit that appears common 

 to them all, and of both sexes. They mostly 

 wear a kind of short breeches and long stock- 

 ings, the use of which they most probably ac- 

 quired from tlie Spaniards. Tlie saco, a spc cies 

 of woollen jacket without sleeves, completes 

 their exterior garment ; except during incle- 

 ment seasons, when they make use of the 

 tilma. Very few of them have hats or head- 

 dress of any kind; and they generally wear 

 their hair long — commonly fashioned into a 

 queue wrapped with some colored stuff The 

 squaws of the northern tribes dress pretty 

 much hke those of the Prairies ; but the usual 

 costume of the females of the southern and 

 western Pueblos is a handsome kind of small 

 blanket of dark color, which is' dravrn under 

 one arm and tacked over the other shoulder, 



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