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Updated: May 26, 2025
The short cloth skirts of the women and girls were made so that the fullness at the waist, instead of being cut away, was merely puckered into place, and beneath the lower hem of the skirt showed a pair of beaded leggings and a pair of silk-worked moccasins.
The men put on their fancy silk-worked moccasins; tied silk handkerchiefs about their necks the reverse of cow-boy fashion and beaded garters around their legs; while the women placed many brass rings upon their fingers, bright plaid shawls about their shoulders, gay silk handkerchiefs over their heads, and beaded leggings upon their legs.
The Indian was a fine-looking man of about forty, his hair bound with a red fillet, his feet incased in silk-worked moccasins, but otherwise dressed in white men's garments. He smoked a short pipe, and contemplated us gravely. "Bo' jou', bo' jou'," we called in the usual double-barrelled North Country salutation. "Bo' jou', bo' jou," he replied.
In each case the knotted handkerchief was offered with the same spoken formula. Ambrose asked what it was they said. "This is give-away dance," Watusk explained. "He is say: 'This my knife, this my blanket, this my silk-worked moccasins. What he want to give. After he got give it."
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