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He wore a fur cap or felt hat, moccasins, and either loose, thin trousers, or else simply leggings of buckskin or elk-hide, and the Indian breech-clout. He was always clad in the fringed hunting-shirt, of homespun or buckskin, the most picturesque and distinctively national dress ever worn in America.
Elaborate preparations were made. In a spacious tent, brightly lighted with torches of pitch-pine, the conjurer, wrapped in a large elk-skin, and corded with about forty yards of elk-hide lariat "bound up like an Egyptian mummy" was laid down in the midst of the assembly, in full view of all.
That is a great advantage which it has, in the eyes of the Indians, over the skins of other species of deer, as the moose and caribou for the leather made from these, after a wetting, becomes harsh and rigid and requires a great deal of rubbing to render it soft again. Lucien knew how to dress the elk-hide, and could make leather out of it as well as any Indian squaw in the country.
God wouldn't sanction such an act as giving her back to his hands. And I was half-mad myself, I'd been alone so long ... I stood so you couldn't see him, Joan, and I threw an elk-hide over him and led you out." "I followed you; I didn't look at Pierre; I left him lying there," gasped Joan. Prosper went on monotonously. "When I came back a week later, I thought he would be dead.
They were made of goat-skins, rendered perfectly supple by grease and rubbing, and with the hair inside. They came up to the thighs, and had a thick sole made of layers of elk-hide.
Moreover, who could steal through the forest in those heeled things without announcing his coming and frightening the forest folk, and sending them skurrying? And Judith loved to surprise them and see them busy with their affairs—to creep along in her soft, elk-hide moccasins and catch their watchful eyes and see the things that were not for the heavy-booted white man.
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