ETHNOGRAPHY 
No. I.—CLOTHING. 
1. Is any clothing used, or do the natives go entirely naked ? 
2. Is there any distinction made in the clothing of the sexes, 
or of persons of various ranks ? 3. Is it varied according to 
the seasons of the year, or for special festivals ? 4. Are there 
any sumptuary laws as to clothing ? 5. Are any recognized 
peculiarities of dress restricted to the subdivisions of tribes ? 
6. Is any deviation in such peculiarities considered improper ? 
7. Are the clothes made by each individual or family ? or 
are there any recognized makers of clothes ? 8. How do 
they rank ? 9. Is there any thing which corresponds to what 
we term “fashion”? 10. Of what materials are the clothes 
chiefly made ? 11. Are they native or imported? 12. Are 
the clothes much shaped or simple wrappers ? 13. How are 
the latter folded ? 14. Is there anv difference between the 
indoor and out-of-door clothing ? 15. Are any portions of 
clothing removed on saluting or visiting a superior? 16. 
How are the garments put together ? 17. If sewn, have the 
needles eyes ? or is the thread passed through a hole pre¬ 
viously made ? 18. What kind of thread is used ? 19. Ho 
clothes descend from parents to children ? or are they burned 
with the individual who wore them, or otherwise destroyed ? 
20. Is there any uniform garment worn ( a ) by fighting men, 
or ( b) by medicine men and priests ? 21. Is any addition made 
to the dress of a man who has killed an enemy or some for¬ 
midable animal ? 
