They certainly present a weird appearance, tricked out in their gaudy apparel and ornamented with flashy trinkets.

The hair of the men is worn loose; tufts of green and yellow feathers flutter over the forehead, while around their necks and dangling over their naked chests are seen strings of porcupine quills, shell beads, turquoises, bright pebbles, feldspar, apatite,--anything in short that glitters and shines.

Bunches of similar material glisten in their ears.

Fastened about the waist, and reaching as low as the knee, a rude kilt-like garment composed of white cotton cloth or of deerskin hangs and flaps.

It is ornamented with an embroidery of red and black threads, and quills of the porcupine.