breach-cloth

Updated: July 23, 2025

With the feathers, they mix porcupine quills and knit the whole into their hair then daub, their head with a species of white clay that is to be found in their country. They wear no clothing except what they call loin-cloth or breach-cloth, and when they, go on the war-path, just as when they went to attack Fort Pitt, they are completely naked.

Theresa Delaney - Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear