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the chin represented a road. This whole painting signified 

 peace. Nowadays women wear two braids of hair from 

 behind their ears, the hair being parted from forehead to 

 nape ; old women often wear their hair loose. 



The face is painted in ceremonials regularly, almost always 

 when any actions are performed that have any connection 

 with what is supernatural, and often for decoration. Black 

 is the paint to indicate victory. Of other colors, red is far 

 the most frequently used. Old people confine themselves to 

 red exclusively, so that red paint is often symbolic of old age. 

 Paint on the face in general signifies happiness or wish for 

 happiness. Mourners do not paint. Their first painting after 

 the completion of mourning is with red, and is called "wash- 

 ing" or "cleansing." The paint along the part of the hair 

 of both men and women is called "the path of the sun." 



The dress of men consisted of a shirt, leggings reaching 

 from the ankles to the hips, breech-cloth, moccasins, and a 

 blanket of buffalo-skin. The women wore an open-sleeved 

 dress not reaching the ankles, moccasins to which leggings 

 were attached that extended to the knee, and a blanket. 

 Small boys often wore nothing or only a shirt. One and the 

 same word denotes the man's shirt and the woman's dress, — 

 biixu'ut. The skin blankets were either painted or embroi- 

 dered. There is a similarity between the designs on blankets 

 and those on tents, bedding, and cradles. 



Sewing was done with needles and awls of bone, and thread 

 of shreds of dried sinew. Needles and awls are now of steel, 

 but sinew is still mostly used for thread. Embroidery for- 

 merly consisted chiefly of colored and flattened porcupine- 

 quills sewed firmly on the surface to be decorated. The quills 

 were softened in the mouth and flattened with a bone. A 

 dark fibrous water-plant was used to embroider in black. 

 These materials, while still in use, have been largely replaced 

 by small glass beads of many different colors. The quills are 

 kept in pouches of gut, which they cannot penetrate (Plate 

 x). The women have work-bags (Plate xv) in which they 

 keep awls, sinew, quills, needles, bones for quill-flattening and 

 for painting, incense, paint, medicine, and similar miscellane- 



