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The complexion of the Osage nation is between 

 an olive and copper colour ; their eyes dark 

 brown ; their noses large and aquiline, and their 

 hair black, straight, and course. The men pluck 

 out, or shave off, all the hair upon their heads, 

 except a lock upon the crown, which they permit 

 to grow its full length. They sometimes per- 

 forate the cartilage of the nose, in which they hang 

 a drop, similar to an ear drop, and bore their ears 

 nearly round to the top, in which they place a 

 large number of silver ear-rings. They wear a 

 breech flap fastened around the waist with a belt ; 

 a pair of ieggins, and shoes or moccasons. These 

 are made of dressed buffaloe or deer skin, and 

 fancifully worked and ornamented with lead and 

 porcupine quills, stained with different colours. 

 A buffaloe robe, which is the skin dressed with 

 the hair on, is worn over the shoulders, and 

 serves for a cloak by day, and for a bed and cov- 

 ering by night. In the summer this robe is laid 

 by, and they go naked, except the breech flap and 

 Ieggins. 



The women are large and well proportioned, 

 rather inclined to corpulency ; their faces oval ; 

 cheek bones somewhat high ; but the features are 

 regular, and not destitute of beauty. Their un- 

 der garment is dressed leather, silk, or calico, 

 without sleeves, and coming down below the knees. 

 About the neck it is decorated with a large num- 

 ber of silver brooches. Their Ieggins and moc- 

 casons are similar to those of the men. Their 



