22 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. 
BILLY BOWLEGS. 
waist. The waist merely reaches below the 
breast, leaving a portion of the stomach bare. 
In most cases these dresses are more or less 
ornamented by sewing on pieces of calico of 
different colors. The women do not wear 
moccasins. Young girls, up to the age of 
eight or nine years, wear only a skirt, being 
nude above the waist, while the boys wear a 
shirt only. Younger children go about naked 
in the camps, but at the present time they 
often put on little cotton shirts, if they happen 
to be in the vicinity of the white settlements. 
As soon as they get into camp, however, off come the clothes and 
the youngsters run about in a state of nature. 
Many of the men 
shave their heads, leaving only a scalp-lock and a little bang of hair 
on the forehead, but 
this custom is not 
always followed by 
the younger In- 
dians. 
The women wear 
great quantities of 
beads which they 
hang in strings 
about their necks, 
and the weight of 
these must be very 
great. The women 
also. wear round 
pieces of silver 
made from dimes 
and quarters ham- 
mered very thin. 
These they fasten 
to the breast of 
INDIAN CHILDREN. 
