Cave, Mound, And Lake Dwellers, And Other Primitive People
Cave, Mound, And Lake Dwellers, And Other Primitive People
Holbrook Florence
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Among the Ameri- can Indian tribes to-day the squaws try to see which one can make the finest suit of ornaments for her husband. The women among civilized people now seem to think more of dress than the men; at least they wear more ornament. Dress is useful in helping us to tell one person from another. We look more like one another when dressed alike. It is hard to tell one postman from another or one nurse in uniform from another. When each wears what he likes best we know one Digitized by Go...ogle DRESS 83 more easily, and the primitive men and women needed to know one another quickly, for they were always on the watch for foes. Ornament was used by all people wherever they lived. Porcupine quills, stained with bright colors, made handsome chains and head-dresses. Teeth of animals were strung for bracelets and put upon the fur dresses. Shells were used in the same way. Vanity led the earliest men and women to seek to adorn themselves, and they used the materi- als close at hand. The earliest clothes differed with the cli- mate.
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