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Show MOQUI FASHIONS. 385 fitted with sleeves ( cuera tnangas ajtistadas), trousers, boots, and shoes. Their weapons are arrows and spears. Inside the pueblo they regularly wear moccasins, sleeves of striped woolen, or of black blanketing, such as they make themselves. The women with a black blanket make for themselves a smock without sleeves reaching to their heels, and put on over this another, either white or black, like a square mantilla; the black smock is fitted with a girdle of various colors. They neither gum nor paint themselves, nor did I see them ornamented either with shells or ear- rings. The hair they wear done up in two braids; the old women in a former Spanish style, the young ones with a puff over each ear, or all tied up on one side; it would appear from this that they take great care of the hair. 20 Notwithstanding the fact that no one did me a single favor, they gave me a concept that there are many good ( persons) among them, and that the " Not being overconfident of my qualifications as a fashion reporter for the Moqui ladies of a hundred years ago, I will give what Garc€ s says: " Las mugeres con una fresada prieta se hazen una tunica talar sin mangas, y se ponen encima otra, ya blanca ya negra como mantilla quadrada, la tunica prieta se la ajustan con una cenidor de varios colores. No se embijan ni pintan, ni les vi adorno de cuentas ni aretes. £ 1 pelo lo lleban hecho dos trenzas, las viejas al modo antiguo de Espana, las mozas con un mofio encimo de cada oreja, 6 todo amarrado k un lado: echase de ver en esto que cuydan mucho del pelo." |