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Updated: August 7, 2024
An' as nothin' but feathers, blankets, an' breech-clouts goes at a war-dance the same bein' Osage dress-clothes Bill shucks his paleface garments an' arrays himse'f after the breezy fashion of his ancestors. Bill attends the war dance an' shines.
All of this is taken from the McAfee MSS., in Colonel Durrett's library. McAfee MSS. A similar adventure befell my brother Elliott and my cousin John Roosevelt while they were hunting buffalo on the staked plains of Texas in 1877. They evidently wore breech-clouts and leggings, not trowsers. McAfee MSS. Filson's "Boon." October 10, 1773, Filson's "Boon."
With a leap, he launched himself full-speed across the bare plain, aiming for the Madison River, five miles before. A burst of yells and whoops reached his ears. He glanced behind and saw some one hundred young braves, naked, the most of them, to their breech-clouts, careering after with spears. He had made good time in other races, but he never had run like this.
For that matter, though something was wrong with them, they were gentlemen, and had been gentlemen. That was why the great unwritten rule of Goboto was that visitors should put on pants and shoes. Breech-clouts, lava-lavas, and bare legs were not tolerated.
Others were perched on doors, on projections of cornices, and in every nook. The fighters were naked except for breech-clouts. They were barefooted. They wore their hair longish, and it appeared like rough, black caps, which now and again fell over their faces and was flung back by a toss of their heads. They were handsome men, framed symmetrically, lithe, and healthy-looking.
Those dirty white specks were the breech-clouts and turbans worn by nearly all the Tonto warriors in preference to any other head-gear or clothing, a cheap cotton cloth being always kept in abundant supply at the agencies solely for their use.
It must have three o'clock when at last the binocular told him they were again in motion and coming rapidly toward him. He could see the dirty white breech-clouts floating in the breeze and could almost distinguish the forms of the warriors themselves.
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.
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