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Identifier: historyofvirgini00beve (find matches)
Title: The history of Virginia, in four parts
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Beverley, Robert, ca. 1673-1722 Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Richmond, J. W. Randolph
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The common people go bare-headed, only
sticking large shining feathers about their heads, as their
fancies lead them.
§ 3. Their clothes are a large mantle, carelessly wrap-
ped about their bodies, and sometimes girt close in the
middle with a girdle. The upper part of this mantle is
drawn close upon the shoulders, and the other hangs be-
low their knees. When thats thrown off, they have only
for modesty sake a piece of cloth, or a small skin tied
round their waist, which reaches down to the middle of the
thigh. The common sort tie only a string round their
middle, and pass a piece of cloth or skin round between
their thighs, which they turn at each end over the string.
Their shoes, when they wear any, are made of an en-
tire piece of buckskin, except when they sew a piece to
the bottom to thicken the sole. They are fastened on
with running strings, the skin being drawn together like a
purse on the top of the foot, and tied round the ankle.
The Indian name of this kind of shoe is moccasin.
But because a draught of these things will inform the
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