tuft-like

Updated: May 29, 2025

Distant about three hundred yards upon the sandy plain are other men and horses, to the number of near two hundred. Their half-naked bodies of bronze colour, fantastically marked with devices in chalk-white, charcoal-black, and vermillion red their buckskin breech-clouts and leggings, with plumes sticking tuft-like above their crowns all these insignia show them to be Indians.

Mayne Reid - The Lone Ranche