NORTH AMERICAN



hereafter.



INDIANS.



113



The warriors paint themselves when they take



the field, to intimidate their enemies, perhaps
their.fear, for we must not think that-they are
from it. The young people do it to conceal an C
or a paleness remaining after some distemper,
they are apprehensive, be taken for the want c
they doi it also, no doubt, to make them look
but on this occasion the colours are more livel



also to hide
all exempt
xir of youth,
vwhich may,
)f courage:
handsome,
y and more



It is said



tha



t



going to die, and for v
informed; it has been t.
is to adorn the victim,
of war. The dead are
to hide the paleness of
they are at the same



to meet
ever.



they paint t
vhat purpose
bought, howe
who is to be
also painted
death which
time dressed



the Great Spirit, with



hle prisoners who are
we have not been
ver, by sone, that it
sacrificedto the God
1 in order, no doubt,
disfigures them, for
in their finest robes



;whom they are to live for



   " The colours
 same which the
 them from certa
* not very lively,
men add to this



which they use on
y employ to dye
in earths and bar]
still they are not
ornament the do)



birds, which they strew on their
greased, like powder. They add
colours and bunches of hair of dive
an odd manner. The placing of the
ing up like bristles on one side, an
dressed in a thousand different way
and sometimes in their nostrils, a
hanging -about their neck, or in ti
made of the plumage of scarce bird
heads of birds of prey, little hornm
merable other things constitute t
  " The men, we see, take little]
part of the body but their heads, i
with the women, for they scarcel
They are Certainly fond of their he
sider themselves disgraced if any p



these
skins,
is of
easily
VD of



!r
iS
d
Is

Le
S



occasions are
and they m
trees. They
worn out. '
Iswans or ol



hair, after
to this fe:
s animals,
-hair, somt
flatted on
, pendants
great shell



0
I1



r breast,
the claw



; of roebucks,
their finery.
pains to adort
rwhich is just 1
y wear any tU
ar, and they
'art of it was i



it
atl
all
jti
th
illI
Io



the
ake
are
The
1A



has been
iers of all
1 placed in
mes stand-
e other, or
their ears
f porcelain



some crowns
sithe feet, or



and



innu-



a any other
Lhe reverse
hiDjg on it.
would con-
2ut off. To



preserve their hair they grease it often and powder it with
the dust of spruce bark, and sometimes with vermillion;



varied.



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