of skins, but after the Dutch came those who could obtain it wore " between their legs a lap of duffels cloth half an ell broad

and nine quarters long," which they girded around their waists, and drew up in a fold "with a flap of each end hanging down in front and rear." In addition to this they had mantles of feathers, and at a later period duffels cloth

"

decked themselves with " plaid

worn over the

in the form of a sash, which was

the body, with the ends right shoulder, drawn in a knot around the young men the When knees. down below extending "a band about wore to look wished 'especially attractive, they and of scarlet deer hair, their heads, manufactured braided,

interwoven with

soft

shining red hair."

dress," says Van der Donck,

"

" With this head

they appear like the delineations

and paintings of the Catholic saints," and, he adds, " when a young Indian is dressed in this manner he would not say plum for a bushel of plums.

But this decoration

is

seldom worn

unless they have a young woman in view."

The dress of an Indian belle was more attractive than any which civilized life has produced. Says the writer last quoted, " The women wear a cloth around their bodies, fastened by a their and extends below is as much as an which knees, girdle under coat ; but next to the body, under this coat, they wear a dressed deer skin coat, girt around the waist. The lower