Identifier: historyofvirgini00beve (find matches)
Title: The history of Virginia, in four parts
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Beverley, Robert, ca. 1673-1722 Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Richmond, J. W. Randolph
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ar asthe navel downward, and upward to the middle of thethigh, by which means they have the advantage of discov-ering their fine limbs and complete shape. Tab. V. Is a couple of young women. The first wear-ing a coronet, necklace and bracelet of peak ; the second awreath of furs on her head, and her hair is bound with afillet of peak and beads. Between the two is a womanunder a tree making a basket of silk grass after their ownmanner. Tab. VI. Is a woman and a boy running after her.One of her hands rests in hei necklace of peak, and theother holds a gourd, in which they put water or otherliquid. 132 OP THE INDIANS AND THEIR DRESS. The boy wears a necklace of runtees, in his right hand isan Indian rattle, and in his left a roasting ear of com.Round his waist is a small string, and another brought crossthrough his crotch, and for decency a soft skin is fastenedbefore. Runtees are made of the conch shell as the peak is, onlythe shape is flat and round like a cheese, and drilled edgeways.
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CHAPTER II. OF THE MARRIAGES AMONGST THE INDIANS, AND MANAGE-MENT OF THEIR CHILDREN. § 6. The Indians have their solemnities of marriage, andesteem the vows made at that time as most sacred and in-violable. Notwithstanding they allow both the man and thewife to part upon disagreement, yet so great is the disrepu-tation of a divorce, that married people, to avoid the char-acter of inconstant and ungenerous, very rarely let theirquarrels proceed to a separation. However, when it does sohappen, they reckon all the ties of matrimony dissolved,and each hath the liberty of mairying another. But infi-delity is accounted the most unpardonable of all crimes ineither of the parties, as long as the contract continues. In these separations, the children go, according to theaffection of the parent, with the one or the other ; for chil-dren are not reckoned a charge among them, but ratherriches, according to the blessing of the Old Testament; andif they happen to differ about dividing their childr

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