Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1895)
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology · Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 359
between the legs and hung down over the belt in front and behind. Garters were much used with leggings. I did not hear of any combination of breechclouts and leggings. Shirts were of two or three kinds. One kind reached to a little above the knees and had true sleeves. It had a number of seams— one… … the seams were ornamented with long cut fringes of dressed skin. Sometimes fringes were made of ermine skins. The bottom was cut in a long fringe all round. Shirts of the old style all opened at the neck or shoulders, and not on the breast. A common shirt was the so-called ‘‘scalp shirt” or “war…
Ethnology · Indians
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