The women, he says, were " of the same form and

beauty, very graceful, of fine countenances and pleasing appear

ance

"

in

manners and modesty."

They wore no

except a deer skin ornamented like those of the men."

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clothing

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THE INDIAN TRIBES

had u very rich lynx skins upon their arms, and various ornaments

upon their heads, composed of braids of hair," which hung down upon their breasts on each side. The older and the married " wore people, both men and women, many ornaments in their ears, hanging down in the oriental manner."

In disposition they

were generous, " giving away " whatever they had ; of their wives they were careful, always leaving them in their boats when they came on ship-board, and their general deportment was such that with them, he says, " we formed a great

friendship." in 1609, was somewhat but his references to their personal appearance are "This day," he says, "many of the people came

Hudson's experience with them, different,

similar.

aboard, some in mantles of feathers, and some in skins of divers sorts of good furs. Some women also came to us with hemp.

They had red copper tobacco pipes, and other things of copper they did wear about their necks."

The Dutch

Wassenaar, Van der Donck, and were generally well-limbed, others, agree slender around the waist, and broad-shouldered ; that they had historians,