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Show 5 The Shoehonee are deoorlbod ao below medium statue; the Utaho, ao mora powerfully built but coarser featured and lesa agile. Their houoos were primitive, often made of brush, serai- oircular, and roofless. Somotimea a oave waa their residence. The Snakoo made better shift by forming a conical tont out of akina stretched on long polea. Both tribes were remarkably dirty in dwelling and habita. The Snakeo dreoaed better than the Utaho, using akino of large animal a, ornamented with heads , ohello, fringes and feathoro , and Binoe acquaintance with the white- a, with pieceo of brilliant colored cloth. Buckskin ohirt, leggino and mocoaaino mde a common costume, over which was thrown a heavy robe of fur, buffalo, wolf, deer, elk or beaver. In warm weather most of their clothing wae discarded. They were vereed in the art of pottery. Agriculture waa not developed} in the leas fertile parts of Utah, the triboo were oomctimes reduced to root- eating, to pine nute, reptiles and insects. To avoid otarvation they have been known to oat detd bodies and even to kill 1 their children for food. As a rule they had no boats; , Bancroft, Hubert Howe, Native Races, I, p. k- 2&. |