SWANTON] INiDIANS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNIITEI) STATES 475 



which at times is thrown or drawn over the head, may be called that. (Mac- 

 Cauley, 1887, pp. 485-486.) 



And Skinner thus reports their costume 30 years later: 



The women wear a full-length skirt girt about the waist, and a cape with 

 sleeves attached. As the waist or cape does not connect with the skirt, a 

 broad band of coppor-colored skin is always visible between the upper and 

 lower garments of the older women. Around their necks they carry enormous 

 necklaces, weighing often from ten to fifteen pounds, and even more. The 

 heavy beads are coiled about their shoulders and throats until their chins 

 are sometimes fairly forced skyward, and causing them to look as if they 

 were being choked. 



For ceremonial purposes their garments are the same, except that then they 

 wear capes that are bedecked with hammered silver bangles and brooches, and 

 in the dance, knee leggings to which tortoise-shell rattles are attached, are 

 worn. (Skinner, 1913, pp. 66-67.) 



The only peculiarity we note in the costume of Caddo women 

 seems to have been in the upper garment, a single garment which 

 instead of being wrapped around the neck and fastened on one 

 shoulder was provided with an opening in the center, poncho 

 fashion. (See S wanton, 1942, pp. 140-148.) This recalls in a meas- 

 ure the upper garment of Seminole women as described by MacCauley. 



CLOTHING OF CHILDREN 



Very young children often went naked and they usually wore 

 very simple clothing until about the age of puberty. Change in 

 women's garments at that time was more marked than with men. 

 Hariot says that girls of 7 or 8 in the east country of North Carolina 

 wore about them 



a girdle of skinne, which hangeth downe about their nauel with mosse of 

 trees betwene their thighes and their skinnes to couer their priuities withall. 

 After they be once past 10 yeares of age, they wear skinnes as the older sorte 

 do. [PL 65.] (Hariot, 1893, pi. 8.) 



Strachey (1849, p. 65) seems to state that girls, and presumably 

 boys, went entirely naked until they were 11 or 12, but some rudi- 

 mentary clothing may probably be assumed, of the sort described by 

 Hariot. It may be noted that Beverley reproduces and undertakes to 

 describe White's drawing in Hariot, except that with him the figure 

 is that of a young boy instead of a young girl. This string clothing 

 seems to be referred to again by Lawson (1860, p. 310), though he 

 states that it was worn after puberty. Swan (1855, p. 275) says 

 that Creek children went stark naked both summer and winter up to 

 the age of 12 or 14 years, but Bartram (1792, p. 502) that Creek 

 girls "as soon as or before they can walk" always wore the jacket, 

 flap or skirt, and moccasins of the grown-up women, while "the male 

 youth go perfectly naked until they are twelve or fifteen years of 



