An intercourse with the white traders, however, soon effected a change in the toilets of both sexes.
They became fond of arraying themselves in any article of civilized dress which they could procure, and often made a most grotesque appearance.

They adapted many articles of finery, also, to their own previous tastes.

Both sexes were fond of adorning themselves with bracelets of iron, brass, or copper.

They were delighted, also, with blue and white beads, particularly the former, and wore broad tight bands of them round the waist and ankles, large rolls of them round the neck, and pendants of them in the ears.

The men, especially, who in savage life carry a passion for personal decoration further than the females, did not think their gala equipments complete unless they had a jewel of hiaqua, or wampum, dangling at the nose.