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Show PRIMITIVE DECORATIONS Townsend, an early Western J.rv-e!er, J.rv-e!er, tells that one da he m. t J hundred Indtan- - ted ,n "They were.(1rstvle their heads the true pryn.the st le shved closely, and pnin p Mte "ITL on iv the long piping Dlflck, leading on y en - of calico, hut the greater number were entirelv naked to the waist. The faces and bodies of the men were, almost without an exception, fantastically painted, the predominant color being deep red, with occasionally n few Btripes of dull clay white around the eves and mouth. . . The squaws, of which there were about twenty, were dr.-sstd very much like the men. and at a little distance c.ld hardly ie distinguished from them. Among them was an old. superannuated cr.-ne. who soon nft'T her arrival, had been ! presented with a broken umbrella. The I only use that she made of it was to ! wrench the plated ends from the whalebones, string them on a piece of , wire, take her knife from her belt, with which she deliberately rut a slit ; of an im h in lent'th along the upper ' rim of her ear, and insert them in it." Youth's Companion. |