IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



in the Interior of the Labrador Peninsula," 

 the same fashion of cap and hair. When one 

 considers the expense, trouble, and heart- 

 breaks that the white sisters of these Indian 

 squaws have experienced since this date in 

 following the innumerable changes of fashion 

 as regards hair-dressing and head-gear, one 

 cannot but admire the Indian's wisdom in 

 retaining without change a fashion at once 

 attractive and sensible. 



All the women wore on their breasts crosses 

 or crucifixes, many of them of polished silver 

 of considerable beauty and value. Both men 

 and women wore rainbow-colored woolen 

 stockings, knit by the white women of the 

 coast, and low moccasins or tall sealskin boots. 

 White canvas jackets were generally adopted 

 by the men, who often wore their straight 

 black hair cropped below their ears. Tlie young 

 of both sexes were fine-looking, with dark olive- 

 brown skins and ruddy cheeks ; their eyes were 

 black and sparkling. Their features were 

 finely cut, their hands and feet small, their 

 frames lithe and active. Some of the girls 

 possessed considerable beauty. The older peo- 

 ple, from whom the glow of youth had passed, 



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