[31]. Frazer, Totemism, p. 26; Edinburgh, 1887. “They differ from each other in the mode of dressing their heads, each following the custom of the nation or band to which they belong, and adhering to the form made use of by their ancestors from time immemorial.” Carver, Travels, p. 229. Cf. Miss Fletcher, Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. I, no. 11, pp. 116, et seq., for modes of cutting hair among Omahas; and Hariot, plate XI, for statement as to medicine-man. See Captain Smith, p. 139, for an account of the snake-skin head-dress of the chief Priest.
[32]. Lafitau, III, p. 50. Cf. Adair, p. 8, for same custom among Southern tribes.
[33]. Strachey, loc. cit., p. 67. Cf. First Voyage, in Hakluyt, II, pp. 286 et seq., for account of copper pendants, sometimes five or six in either ear, and red pieces of copper on the head.
[34]. Charlevoix, VI, p. 42.
[35]. Du Pratz, II, p. 197.
[36]. Hariot, plates IV, VI, and VII.
[37]. “A quantity of pearls amounting to six or seven arrobes.” Biedma, in Historical Collections of Louisiana, part II, p. 101. “In her eares bracelets of pearls hanging down to her middle.” Voyages of English Nation to America, in Hakluyt, II, p. 286. In same, p. 304, it is said, “not only his own skinnes that hee weareth, and the better sort of his gentlemen and followers are full set with the sayd Pearle, but also his beds, and houses are garnished with them, and that hee hath such quantitie of them, that it is a wonder to see.” “Bracelets of real pearls; but they pierce them when hot and thus spoil them.” Membré, loc. cit., p. 183. Cf. Shea, Early Voyages, p. 86, and in same, p. 140, Father Gravier says, “the chief’s wife had some small pearls ... but about seven or eight which are as large as small peas.” Cf. Captain Smith, loc. cit., pp. 138, 144, 191, etc.; Strachey, pp. 54, 132; Tonti, loc. cit., p. 62.
[38]. Knight of Elvas, loc. cit., p. 144. Cf. Garcilaso de la Vega, I, pp. 424, 434; and in vol. II, pp. 5 et seq., there is an account of the way in which the Indians extracted pearls from shells; Paris, 1670.
[39]. First Voyage, in Hakluyt, II, pp. 286, 334; Edinburgh, 1889.
[40]. “De tout ce que je vient de dire de la manière de s’orner, on conclura aisément, que les Sauvages, au lieu d’ajouter à leur beauté naturelle, (car ils sont presque tous bien faits,) travaillent à se rendre laids & à se défigurer. Cela est vrai aussi; cependant quand ils sont bien parez à leur mode, l’assemblage bizarre de tous leurs ornemens, non seulement n’a rien qui choque, mais il a un je ne sçai quoi qui plaît, & leur donne de la bonne grace.” Lafitau, Mœurs des Sauvages Amériquains, tome III, p. 57; Paris, 1724.