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western life was the relation existing hetwcMMi the se(l(Mi- 

 tary and nomadie j^eoples. We are tokl by the Coro- 

 nado writers and by Espejo that the nomadic peoples 

 of the plains and of the mountains of the Southwest 

 br()u*!;ht the meat and the hides of buffalo and deer to 

 the pueblos and exchanged them for mantles of cotton 

 and for corn. This exchange of products allowed 

 one people to concentrate upon agriculture and the 

 other u})()n hunting, yet each to have both corn and 

 meat for food, and cotton cloth and dressed skins for 

 clothing. 



Dress. 



The dress of the sedentary Indians of the Southwest 

 changed but little from the time it was first described 

 in the sixteenth century until the American occupation 

 and railroads brought other styles and cheaper mate- 

 rials. 



In the east, at Taos, Picuris, and Pecos, skins were 

 almost, if not quite exclusively worn. The men were 

 described as wearing small shirts with fringes, and robes 

 of buffalo skin decorated with painted designs. The 

 women's clothing of these particular pueblos is not 

 mentioned at an early date but at the present time the 

 long buckskin dresses of the Plains type are occasion- 

 ally seen at Taos. The dress of the men at that pueblo 

 is hardly to be distinguished from that worn by the 

 Indians of the Plains; long leggings of fringed buckskin, 

 or of red or blue flannel are still generally worn. The 



