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of the interior, rather than an Algonquian. Beverley's text describ- 

 ing this is as follows : 



Fig. 2 wears the Duffield Match-coat bought of the English, on his Head is a 

 Coronet of Peak, on his Legs are Stockings made of DuflSelds : That is, they take 

 a length to reach from the Ankle to the Knee, so broad as to wrap round the 

 lieg; this they sow together, letting the edges stand out an Inch beyond the 

 Seam. When this is on, they Garter below Knee, and fasten the lower end in 

 the Moccasin. (Beverley, 1705, bk. 3, p. 5, pi. 3.) 



Lawson does not seem to mention this garment, but he speaks of 

 garters and they were almost always used in connection with the 

 leggings, and Catesby, who covered much the same territory, says 

 "they wear leather buskins on their legs, which they tie below the 

 knee" (Catesby, 1731-43, vol. 2, p. viii). Timberlake (Williams ed., 

 1927, p. 76) speaks of "a sort of cloth-boots" distinct from the moc- 

 casins, worn in his time and Bartram (1792, p. 500), who essays to 

 describe the clothing of all the principal Southeastern tribes, also refers 

 to them, and says "they reach from the ancle to the calf, and are orna- 

 mented with lace, beads, silver bells, &c." If he is correct, these were 

 sometimes shorter than the one commonly described. Adair calls them 

 "boots." 



The men wear, for ornament, and the conveniences of hunting, thin deer- 

 skin boots, well smoaked, that reach so high up their thighs, as with their 

 Jackets to secure them from the brambles and braky thickets. They sew 

 them about five inches from the edges, which are formed into tossels, to 

 which they fasten fawns trotters, and small pieces of tinkling metal, or wild 

 turkey-cock-spurs. (Adair, 1775, p. 7.) 



The Creek women who accompanied Oglethorpe in his St. Augus- 

 tine expedition of 1743 had "Boots about their Legs, of Bays" 

 (Kimber, 1744, p. 16). These garments were in use up to the latter 

 half of last century and are well remembered by the Creeks of 

 Oklahoma and the Alabama of Texas. 



There is no certain reference to the employment of leggings in 

 Florida by its ancient inhabitants. Nearly all French writers who 

 have undertaken to give a description of Natchez clothing mention 

 them under the term mitasses. An early writer says: "In place of 

 stockings they envelop the leg in another piece of stuff, which they 

 tie under the knee, and which is called mitasse^^'' and Le Page du 

 Pratz says : 



They also make a garment which the French call mitasses, but which ought 

 rather to be denominated cuissards, since it covers the thighs and descends 

 from the hips as far as the moccasins and enters these to the ankles. (Swan- 

 ton, 1911, pp. 52-53.) 



Probably this was general in the valley, but there are no other 

 definite references to it. 



The heelless shoe for which we have adopted the eastern Algonquian 

 term "moccasin" was universally, but not continuously, worn. It was 



