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_Clum_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1871, p. 47. 'Most wretched looking Indians I have ever seen.' _Sitgreaves' Zuni Ex._, p. 14. 'Small in stature.... Coal-black eye.' _Peters' Life of Carson_, p. 326. 'Hair is very black and straight, much resembling horse hair ... appears to belong to the Asiatic type.' _Henry_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p. 211. 'Gipsy looking with an eye singularly wild and piercing.'
_Houstoun's Texas_, p. 227. 'Have very light complexions.' _Ward's Mexico_, vol. i., p. 580. 'Die Lipanis haben blondes Haar, und sind schone Leute.' _Muhlenpfordt_, _Mejico_, tom. i., p. 215, tom. ii., pt.
ii., p. 421. 'Sont des beaux hommes.' _Lachapelle_, _Raousset-Boulbon_, p. 82. 'Tall, majestic in figure; muscular.' _Brantz-Mayer's Mex.
Aztec., etc._, vol. ii., p. 123. 'Fine physical conformation.' _Foote's Texas_, vol. i., p. 298. 'Their skin looked whiter than I have ever seen it in the Indians.' _Wizlizenus' Tour_, p. 71. 'Crian pie menor que los otros indios.' _Sonora_, _Descrip. Geog._, in _Doc. Hist. Mex._, serie iii., tom. iv., p. 564. 'Todos son morenos, cuerpo bien proporcionado, ojos vivos, cabello largo y lampinos.' _Velasco_, _Noticias de Sonora_, p. 265. 'Su talla y color diferencian algo en cada tribu, variando este desde el bronceado al moreno. Son todos bien proporcionados ... y ninguna barba.' _Garcia Conde_, in _Soc. Mex. Geog._, _Boletin_, tom.
v., p. 314; see also _Cordero_, in _Orozco y Berra_, _Geografia_, pp.
370-1. 'Though not tall, are admirably formed, with fine features and a bright complexion, inclining to yellow.' _Pattie's Pers. Nar._, p. 117.
'Son altos, rubios y de bellisimas proporciones.' _Revista Cientifica_, tom. i., p. 55. 'Taille ordinaire, de couleur fonce.' 'Comme ces Indiens ne font leur nourriture que de chair et princ.i.p.alement de celle de l'ane et du mulet, ils exhalent une odeur si penetrante que les chevaux et surtout les mules rebroussent chemin aussitot qu'ils les eventent.'
_Soc. Geog._, _Bulletin_, serie v., No. 96, p. 187.
[651] 'Cut their hair short over the forehead, and let it hang behind.'
_Domenech's Deserts_, vol. ii., p. 65. Distinguished 'durch den vollstandig gleichma.s.sigen Schnitt ihrer schwarzen Haare.' _Mollhausen_, _Reisen in die Felsengeb._, tom. i., p. 274; _Mollhausen_, _Tagebuch_, p. 384; _Browne's Apache Country_, 107; _Sitgreaves' Zuni Ex._, pp. 15, 18; _Palmer_, in _Harper's Mag._, vol. xvii., pp. 460, 461; _Whipple_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., pp. 98, 110.
[652] Mojave girls, after they marry, tattoo the chin 'with vertical blue lines.' _Palmer_, in _Harper's Mag._, vol. xvii., p. 463. Yumas: 'Doch ist ihnen das Tatowiren nicht fremd; dieses wird indessen mehr von den Frauen angewendet welche sich die Mundwinkel und das Kinn mit blauen Punkten und Linien schmucken.' _Mollhausen_, _Reisen in die Felsengeb._, tom. i., p. 124; _Mollhausen_, _Tagebuch_, p. 385; _Stratton's Capt.
Oatman Girls_, pp. 151-2; _Whipple, Ewbank, and Turner's Rept._, p. 33, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., and plate; _Michler_, in _Emory's Rept. U. S. and Mex. Boundary Survey_, vol. i., p. 110; _Soc. Geog._, _Bulletin_, serie v., No. 96, p. 186; _Treasury of Trav._, p. 32.
[653] 'Das Gesicht hatten sich alle Vier (Mojaves) auf gleiche Weise bemalt, namlich kohlschwarz mit einem rothen Striche, der sich von der Stirne uber Nase, Mund und Kinn zog.' _Mollhausen_, _Tagebuch_, pp. 383, 385, 388; plate, 394. 'Painted perfectly black, excepting a red stripe from the top of his forehead, down the bridge of his nose to his chin.'
_Ives' Colorado Riv._, p. 67. The Apaches 'Se tinen el cuerpo y la cara con bastantes colores.' _Doc. Hist. N. Vizcaya, MS._, p. 5. 'Pintura de greda y almagre con que se untan la cara, brazos y piernas.' _Cordero_, in _Orozco y Berra_, _Geografia_, p. 371; _Doc. Hist. Mex._, serie iv., tom. iii., p. 11; _Velasco_, _Noticias de Sonora_, p. 266; _Henry_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p. 211; _Hardy's Trav._, p. 337; _Smart_, in _Smithsonian Rept._, 1867, p. 418; _Whipple, Ewbank, and Turner's Rept._, p. 33, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., and plate; _Whipple_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., p. 110; _Sedelmair_, in _Doc. Hist. Mex._, serie iii., vol. iv., p. 858.
[654] 'Naked with the exception of the breech-cloth.' _Sitgreaves' Zuni Ex._, pp. 14, 18; see also plates; Mojave men 'simply a breech-cloth.'
_Touner_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1871. 'No clothing but a strip of cotton.... The Yumas display 'a ludicrous variety of tawdry colors and dirty finery.' _Ives' Colorado Rept._, pp. 54, 59, 66. See colored plates of Yumas, Mojaves, and Hualpais, 'Andan enteramente desnudos.'
_Alegre_, _Hist. Comp. de Jesus_, tom. iii., p. 111; _Mollhausen_, _Tagebuch_, p. 383; _Domenech's Deserts_, vol. ii., p. 62; _Hardy's Trav._, pp. 336, 342; _Stratton's Capt. Oatman Girls_, p. 138; _Pattie's Pers. Nar._, p. 149; _Walker_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1872, p. 162; _Cortez_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., p. 124; _Whipple_, in _Pac.
R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., p. 33; _Cremony's Apaches_, pp. 29, 132; _Soc.
Geog._, _Bulletin_, serie v., No. 93, p. 186; _Indian Traits_, vol. i., in _Hayes Col._
[655] 'A few stripes of the inner bark of the willow or acacia tied scantily round their waists.' _Hardy's Trav._, p. 336. 'Long fringe of strips of willow bark wound around the waist.' _Sitgreaves' Zuni Ex._, p. 18. The men wear 'a strip of cotton,' the women 'a short petticoat, made of strips of bark.' _Ives' Colorado Riv._, p. 66. 'Nude, with the exception of a diminutive breech cloth.' _Cremony's Apaches_, p. 29.
'Las mas se cubren de la cintura hasta las piernas con la cascara interior del sauce.' _Sedelmair_, in _Doc. Hist. Mex._, serie iii., tom.
iv., p. 851. 'Las mugeres se cubren de la cintura a la rodilla con la cascara interior del sauce.' _Alegre_, _Hist. Comp. de Jesus_, tom.
iii., p. 111; _Mollhausen_, _Tagebuch_, p. 384; _Mollhausen_, _Reisen in die Felsengeb._, vol. i., p. 123; _Stratton's Capt. Oatman Girls_, p.
138; _Soc. Geog._, _Bulletin_, serie v., No. 96, p. 186; _Whipple_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., p. 114; _Whipple, Ewbank, and Turner's Rept._, p. 33, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., plate and cuts; _Touner_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1871, p. 364; _Parker_, in _Ind. Aff.
Rept._, 1870, p. 130; _Michler_, in _Emory's Rept. U. S. and Mex.
Boundary Survey_, vol. i., pp. 109, 110, with plate.
[656] 'Partly clothed like the Spaniards, with wide drawers, moccasins and leggings to the knee ... their moccasins have turned-up square toes ... mostly they have no head-dress, some have hats, some fantastic helmets.' _Cutts' Conq. of Cal._, p. 184. 'They prefer the legging and blanket to any other dress.' _Bartlett's Pers. Nar._, vol. i., pp. 320, 328. 'Mexican dress and saddles predominated, showing where they had chiefly made up their wardrobe.' _Emory's Reconnoissance_, p. 61. 'Los hombres, se las acomodan alrededor del cuerpo, dejando desambarazados los brazos. Es en lo general la gamuza o piel del venado la que emplean en este servicio. Cubren la cabeza de un bonete o gorra de lo mismo, tal vez adornado de plumas de aves, o cuernos de animales.... El vestuario de las mujeres es igualmente de pieles.' _Cordero_, in _Orozco y Berra_, _Geografia_, p. 371. 'Cervinis tergoribus amiciuntur tam foeminae quam mares.' _Benavides_, in _De Laet_, _Novus...o...b..s_, p. 316; _Alarchon_, in _Hakluyt's Voy._, vol. iii., pp. 431, 437; _Sonora, Descrip. Geog._, in _Doc. Hist. Mex._, serie iii., tom. iv., p. 564; _Doc. Hist. N. Vizcaya, MS._, p. 5; _Pattie's Pers. Nar._, p. 117; _Hughes' Doniphan's Ex._, p.
214; _Peters' Life of Carson_, p. 451; _Henry_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., pp. 210, 211; _Walker_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1872, p.
174; _Parker_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1869, p. 248; _Roedel_, in _Ind.
Aff. Rept._, 1871, p. 397; _Niza_, in _Ternaux-Compans_, _Voy._, serie i., tom. ix., pp. 266, 268; _Froebel_, _Aus Amerika_, tom. ii., pp. 161, 424; see also _Froebel's Cent. Am._, pp. 309, 490; _Garcia Conde_, in _Alb.u.m Mex._, tom. i., pp. 46, 166, 167; _Linati_, _Costumes_, plate xxii.; _Velasco_, _Noticias de Sonora_, p. 266; _Mollhausen_, _Fluchtling_, tom. ii., p. 173; _Beaumont_, _Cron. de Mechoacan, MS._, p. 417; _Lachapelle_, _Raousset-Boulbon_, p. 82.
[657] The hair of the Mohaves is occasionally 'matted on the top of the head into a compact ma.s.s with mud.' _Sitgreaves' Zuni Ex._, p. 18.
'Their pigments are ochre, clay, and probably charcoal mingled with oil.' _Whipple, Ewbank, and Turner's Rept._, pp. 33, in _Pac. R. R.
Rept._, vol. iii. 'Ihr Hauptschmuck dagegen sind die langen, starken Haare, die mittelst na.s.ser Lehmerde in Rollen gedreht.' _Mollhausen_, _Reisen in die Felsengeb._, tom. i., p. 124. The Axuas 'Beplastered their bodies and hair with mud.' _Hardy's Trav._, pp. 343-4, 356, 368, 370; _Browne's Apache Country_, pp. 61, 63.
[658] Small white beads are highly prized by the Mohaves. _Ives'
Colorado River_, pp. 68-9. 'The young girls wear beads ... a necklace with a single sea-sh.e.l.l in front.' The men 'leather bracelets, trimmed with bright b.u.t.tons ... eagles' feathers, called ”sormeh,” sometimes white, sometimes of a crimson tint ... strings of wampum, made of circular pieces of sh.e.l.l.' _Whipple_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., pp. 114, 115. 'Sh.e.l.ls of the pearl-oyster, and a rough wooden image are the favorite ornaments of both s.e.xes' with the Apaches. _Henry_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p. 210. 'Sus adornos en el cuello y brazos son sartas de pesunas de venado y berrendos, conchas, espinas de pescado y raices de yerbas odoriferas. Las familias mas pudientes y aseadas bordan sus trajes y zapatos de la espina del puerco-espin.'
_Cordero_, in _Orozco y Berra_, _Geografia_, p. 371. 'Adornanse con gargantillas de caracolillos del mar, entreverados de otras cuentas, de conchas coloradas redondas.' _Sedelmair_, in _Doc. Hist. Mex._, serie iii., tom. iv., p. 851. 'Las mugeres por arracadas o aretes, se cuelgan conchas enteras de nacar, y otras mayores azules en cada oreja.'
_Alegre_, _Hist. Comp. de Jesus_, tom. iii., p. 111; _Froebel_, _Aus Amerika_, tom. ii., p. 424; _Emory's Reconnoissance_, p. 61; _Cremony's Apaches_, p. 222; _Garcia Conde_, in _Alb.u.m Mex._, tom. i., pp. 166, 167; _Pattie's Pers. Nar._, p. 149; _Bartlett's Pers. Nar._, vol. ii., p. 181; _Almanza_, in _Doc. Hist. Mex._, serie iii., tom. iv., p. 837; _Palmer_, in _Harper's Mag._, vol. xvii., p. 463; _Velasco_, _Noticias de Sonora_, p. 266; _Browne's Apache Country_, pp. 60-64; _Michler_, in _Emory's Rept. U. S. and Mex. Boundary Survey_, pp. 109-110; _Whipple_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., p. 98; _Whipple, Ewbank, and Turner's Rept._, p. 33, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii.; _Mollhausen_, _Tagebuch_, pp. 389, 394, 399; _Monta.n.u.s_, _Nieuwe Weereld_, p. 210; _Hardy's Trav._, p. 364; _Smart_, in _Smithsonian Rept._, 1867, pp.
418-19; _Ternaux-Compans_, _Voy._, serie i., tom. ix., pp. 266, 268, 273; _Alarchon_, in _Hakluyt's Voy._, vol. iii., p. 437; _Mexikanische Zustande_, tom. i., p. 64.
[659] The 'hair is worn long and tied up behind' by both s.e.xes; _Letherman_, in _Smithsonian Rept._, 1855, p. 290. 'Langes starkes Haar in einen d.i.c.ken Zopf zusammengeknotet.' _Mollhausen_, _Fluchtling_, tom.
iv., p. 36; _Bartlett's Pers. Nar._, vol. i., p. 329.
[660] 'Tolerably well dressed, mostly in buckskin.... They dress with greater comfort than any other tribe, and wear woolen and well-tanned buckskin ... the outer seams are adorned with silver or bra.s.s b.u.t.tons.'