Identifier: uncivilizedraces02wood (find matches)
Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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In battlethe wearer always assumes the headdressby way of challenge to the enemy. Thereis good reason for not always wrearing thisdress. I have worn the dress formerly usedby Mah-to-toh-pa, and found it to be hot,heavy, and inconvenient. As a contrast to the dress of a noted war-rior, we may take that of a mere dandy, a fewof whom are sure to be found in every tribe.They are always remarkable for elegance ofperson and effeminacy of nature, having thegreatest horror of exposing themselves todanger, and avoiding equally the bear, thebison, and the armed enemy. Consequentlythey may not deck themselves with the plu-mage of the war eagle, every feather of whichsignifies a warrior slain by the wTarriors ownhand. Neither may they adorn their neckswith the claws of the grizzly bear, their robeswith scalp-locks and paintings, nor theirbodies with the scarlet streaks that tell ofhonorable wounds received in battle. Such ornaments would at once be tornfrom them by the indignant warriors of IIxq
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THE MANDAN CHIEF MAH-TO-TOH-PA AND WIFE. (See pages 127G, 1286, 1287.) (1277) AN INDIAN DANDY. 1279 tribe, and they are forced to content them-selves with mountain goat, doe, and ermineskins, swans down, porcupine quills, andsimilar articles — all more beautiful thanthe sombre eagle quills, bears claws, andscalp-locks that mark the brave. They spend their whole lives in idleness,and do not even join the athletic games ofwhich the Americans are exceedingly fond,but devote their whole energies to theadornment of their persons. They will oc-cupy four of five hours in making their toi-lets^ being fastidious as to the arrangementof every hair of their eyebrows, and tryingby the mirror the effect of various expres-sions of countenance. Having spent the whole morning in thisoccupation, they sally out on their horses,seated on white and soft saddles, beautifullyornamented with porcupine quills and er-mine, and lounge about the village for anhour or two, displaying their handsome per-sons to

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