52 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 43

 Regarding their dress generally we read as follows:
 The men are dressed in deerskins, which are made like our jackets, and
descend halfway down the thighs. They have breechcloths and mytes a under-
neath, which cover them from the feet to the hips.b
 The women are covered with a garment of white cloth, which extends from
neck to feet, made almost like tihe Andriennes of our French ladies. *
The clothing of the girls is different from that of tile women; they wear only
the breechcloth, which is made like the little taffeta aprons which girls in
France wear over their skirts. The ltreechcloths of the girls are ordinarily
made of a fabric of white thread and cover their nudeness only in front from
the belt halfway down the legs. They fasten it behind with two cords, at the
end of each one of which hangs a tassel which falls behind. There are fringes
sewed to the lower part of the breechcloth along the front which hang down to
the ankle. The girls wear this until they reach the age of puberty, for then
they put on the dress of the women.'
 Now that the savages have traded with us they leave off as much as they
are able the skins with which they formerly covered themselves. The richest-
that is to say, the mIost skillful hunters-have shirts which they usually wear
on their bodies without ever washing them. Some wear over this shirt one of
the great coverings of which I have spoken when it is cold and go bare except
for their shirts during the hot season. The others, as the chiefs, wear clothing
of cloth of Limboury, which we give them ready made. The modest colors are
not to their taste. No savage in America wears breeches; they content them-
selves with a breechcloth, or with a piece of cloth or skin with which they
conceal what ought to be concealed. They fasten it to the belt in front and
behind. In place of stockings lhey envelop the leg in another piece of stuff,
which they tie under tlie knee, and which is called miitansse. Their shoe is a
piece of skin cut and sewed to the size of the foot. Many women, and espe-
cially those belonging to the chiefs, have skirts and always wear a kind of
skirt which covers them from the waist to the knee. The best clothed have
woolen coverings, the less wealthy have neither shirts nor coverings: they go
naked from the waist up, unless the cold obliges them to cover themselves
with a skin.a
 These people go almost naked. The men wear only a kind of belt, through
which they pass a fourth of a piece of red or blue cloth, which in that country
is called Limboury, which serves to conceal their nudity. Sometimes they
employ for the same purpose a piece of linen. This is what they call a brayet.
This cloth, fastened in front to their belt, passes between their thighs and
reaches the same belt behind, where it is also fastened, leaving a rather large
end to hang down behind at the two sides.
 With regard to thie women, they have a kind of short petticoat made of an
ell of this same cloth, which reaches the lower leg only and which they call an
alconand. It is never permitted the girls to wear this petticoat so long as they
keep their virginity. It is only after they have lost it, whether through
marriage or otherwise, that they can make use of it. Until that time in place
of this arrangement they wear a kind of net attached to their belt and termi-
nating in a point just like a kind of corps (d''nfant, the two sides of which are
ornamented with ribbons of bass thread, also worked into a netting. From
their belts to their knees hang many strings front the same cord, at the ends of

 Perhaps this should be mitasse.s, leggings.
 P 1'niranut in Mnargry. DOeouvertes. v, 44(1.
 SIbid.. 445-44ti.
 d The Luxembourg M6moire sur La Louisiane, 132-133, 1752.