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A note may be appended from MacCauley regarding Seminole 

 children in Florida in 1880-81 : 



Girls from seven to ten years old are clothed with only a petticoat, and boys 

 about the same age wear only a shirt. Younger children are, as a rule, entirely 

 naked. If clothed at any time, it is only during exceptionally cool weather or 

 when taken by their parents on a journey to the homes of the palefaces. (Mac- 

 Cauley, 1887, p. 486.) 



And Skinner says of the same tribe: 



The costumes of the children are invariably the same as those of their elders, 

 save that little girls sometimes wear a single-piece gown with an appliqu§ collar 

 on festival occasions. (Skinner, 1913, p. 67.) 



CLOTHING OF THE MEDICINE MEN 



The clothing of the medicine men is often given separate treatment 

 by our authorities and we will follow their example. In the first of 

 these descriptions, by Hariot, will be included other items, though we 

 are to consider them separately a little later. 



The Priests of the aforesaid Towne of Secota are well stricken in yeers, and 

 as yt seemeth of more experience than the comon sorte. They weare their heare 

 cutt like a creste, on the topps of thier heades as other doe, but the rest are 

 cutt shorte, sauings those which growe aboue their foreheads in manner of a 

 perriwigge. They also haue somwhat hanginge in their ears. They weare a 

 shorte clocke made of fine hares skinnes quilted with the hayre outwarde. 

 The rest of their bodie is naked. (Hariot, 1893, pi. 5; pi. 94 of this work.) 



A little farther on he speaks of the costume worn by another type 

 of dealer in the supernatural whom he calls the "conjurer." 



They shaue all their heads sauinge their crests which they weare as other 

 doe, and fasten a small black birde aboue one of their ears as a badge of their 

 oflBce. They weare nothinge but a skinne which hangeth downe from their 

 gyrdle, and couereth their priuityes. They wear a bagg by their side as is 

 expressed in the figure. (Hariot, 1893, pi. 11 ; pi. 95 of this work.) 



Strachey gives the following account of the costume of those priests 

 who had charge of the principal Powhatan temple at Utamussack in 

 the Pamunkey country : 



In this place commonly are resident seven priests, the chief differing from the 

 rest in his ornament, whilst the inferior priests can hardly be knowne from 

 the common people, save that they had not (it maye be maye not have) so 

 many holes in their eares to hang their Jewells at. The ornaments of the chief 

 priest were, uppon his showlders a middle-sized cloke of feathers much like the 

 old sacrificing garment which Isodorus calls cassiola, and the burlett or attire of 

 his head was thus made; some twelve or sixteen or more snakes* sloughes or 

 skyns were stuffed with mosse, and of weasells or other vermyn were skynns 

 perhapps as many ; all these were tyed by the tayles, so as their tayles meet in 

 the tope of the head like a great tassell, and round about the tassell was circled 

 a crownett (as yt were) of feathers, the skynns hanging round about his head, 

 neck and showlders, and in a manner covering his face. The faces of all their 



