SWANTON] INDIANS OP THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES 521 



Metal crescents, however, were an article of male attire: 



The ornaments worn by the men which are most worthy of attention are 

 crescents, varying in size and value. These are generally about five inches long, 

 an inch in width at the widest part, and of the thickness of ordinary tin. These 

 articles are also made from silver coins and are of home manufacture. They 

 are worn suspended from the neck by cords, in the cusps of the crescents, one 

 below another, at distances apart of perhaps two and a half inches. (MacCauley. 

 1887, p. 489.) 



BRACET^ETS AND ARM BANDS 



Bracelets appear in two of White's drawings, the wearers being 

 chiefs, but the men do not have arm bands. Mention of ''bracelets'' 

 in the text does not necessarily mean the use of wrist ornaments since, 

 in the sixteenth century, the word was used for strings of beads in 

 general. In these two cases, however, the text specifies "bracelets on 

 their amies." In one place the writer goes on to explain that they 

 were made "of pearles, or small beades of copper or of smoothe bone 

 called minsal" (Beverley, 1705, pis. 5, 6 ; Hariot, 1893, pi. 3) . In 1728 

 Nottoway girls were observed to wear bracelets of wampum. Bever- 

 ley's references to bracelets are perhaps derived from Hariot. Lederer 

 remarked copper ornaments on the arms of the Tuscarora women, 

 and there is little reason to doubt that the ancient Siouans wore 

 bracelets as well, but Lawson merely mentions "bracelets made of 

 brass, and sometimes of iron wire," European importations, as if their 

 use might have been recent (Alvord. 1912, p. 162; Lawson, 1860, p. 

 314) . Le Moyne figures bracelets of beads and metal disks on certain 

 Florida chiefs, and bead bracelets on two women of high rank. He 

 also shows chiefs wearing arm bands of the same types just above 

 the elbow and also above the biceps. The metal disks are fastened 

 at intervals on leather straps encircling the limb. In his text Le 

 Moyne notes, also, the use of "bracelets of fishes' teeth" (Le Moyne, 

 1875, p. 2; Swanton, 1922, p. 349). 



San Miguel in 1595 saw strings of beads adorning the wrists and 

 upper arms of Guale Indians and those of the Calusa (or Tekesta) 

 chief (Garcia, 1902, pp. 194, 210). xA^mong the ornamental objects 

 found at Key Marco, Gushing noted "one superb little brooch, scarcely 

 more than in inch in width, made of hard wood, in representation of an 

 angle-fish, the round spots on its back inlaid with minute discs of 

 tortoise shell, the bands of the diminutive tail delicately and realist- 

 ically incised, and the mouth, and a longitudinal eyelet as delicately 

 incut into the lower side." Also, as above, there were "bunches of 

 long, delicate, semi-transparent fish-spines" which he thought might 

 have been necklaces or wristlets (Gushing, 1896, pp. 374, 376). 



On Savannah Kiver, in the mortuary house of Gofitachequi, De Soto's 

 followers found a number of dead bodies on which there were pearl 



