10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BREECHCLOUT»
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breechclout in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Native Re-Enacting Made Easy: How to Portray an Eastern ...
This was called the breechclout, breechcloth or loincloth. Throughout the ages
the function of this garment did not change. Once trade cloth was introduced, the
buckskin version of the breechclout was all but replaced. Like the legging, it
could ...
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The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways : Edited ...
Apparently the string about the waist, on which the breechclout hangs, is as
important as the breechclout itself, or perhaps the string may represent the whole
article. Little boys, as soon as they can walk, have the string put upon them, and ...
George Bird Grinnell, Joseph A. Fitzgerald, 2008
Your day-long outfit will consist of breechclout and moccasins only. Make your
breechclout from a fairly heavy outing flannel. Pick a dark color, preferably red or
blue. Bind the edges with half-inch bias tape in a contrasting color, if you like.
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Native American Survival Skills
to about seventy-five years ago, the breechclout and moccasins were about all
the “clothes” an Indian wore around camp, on hunting trips, and in battle. These “
clothes” gave him the freedom he liked. In hunting he could feel every thorn or ...
Quetzal feather horns. Necklace of golden beads and small sea- shells. [fol. 56v]
Breechclout with torch-holder design. Breechclout with disc design in feathers.
Carmine colored breechclout. Bicolored breechclout. Breechclout with filigree ...
Bernardino de Sahagún, Thelma D. Sullivan, Henry B. Nicholson, 1997
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The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life
Breechclout. Until recently all the older Cheyenne men wore the breechclout,
which they still appear to regard as a sign of sex. Among the Northern
Cheyennes, until about 1900, all still wore the breechclout under the trousers,
and the string ...
George Bird Grinnell, 1972
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Warrior Art of Wyoming's Green River Basin: Biographic ...
breechclout (or coat?), rear panel only; d (warrior at right), kilt-like garment and
top hat. one end (Figure 22). This selvedge line indicates a different colored hem
on the cloth. Breechclouts, frequently cut from red stroud cloth or other trade cloth
, ...
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The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains
Regular attire generally consisted of breechclout, leggings, and moccasins only.
The former was a broad piece of cloth or buckskin drawn up between the legs
and passed under the belt both behind and before. The ends, one in front and
one ...
Ernest Wallace, E. Adamson Hoebel, 2013
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Indian Terms of the Americas
Being a clout Indian meant wearing the draped breechclout rather than pants or
leggings. The absence of leg coverings caused outsiders to sneer that the clout
Indian was uncivilized and therefore inferior or dangerous. [See also breechclout
...
Lotsee Patterson, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, 1994
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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and ...
An eyewitness description of the dress worn on campaign by soldiers in New
France provided a succinct description of these breechclouts and leggings. The
breechclout was “a piece of wool that one passes between the thighs in the
fashion ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BREECHCLOUT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
breechclout is used in the context of the following news items.
Steve Stern: In a Pinch
(“Allow me to custom-fit you for a nice suede breechclout.”) But already the soldiers and carpenters were constructing the barges that would ... «Memphis Flyer, Jun 15»
The Winchester Model 1894: a famous gun with an interesting local …
He recalled being a boy and seeing a Nüwa man, dressed in only a traditional breechclout, with that Model 1894 rifle in the vicinty of Piute ... «Tehachapi News, May 15»
Patrick Freyne: Remembering a time when murder was fun and …
Watching Higgins's vast clownish pantaloons next to Magnum's teeny-weeny breechclout, it's clear that trouser size was a very important theme ... «Irish Times, Apr 15»
Brian Sewell on the naked truth behind the British Museum's latest …
I observe in passing that his Risen Christ had to be fitted with a bronze breechclout to prevent superstitious old ladies from fondling him before ... «Evening Standard, Mar 15»
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early October
“A bandana instead of a headdress, trousers instead of a breechclout! It's inappropriate, inauthentic. No one would believe he was Indian.”. «Locus Online, Oct 14»
CHC announces 2014 events schedule
On April 12, the history of Cherokee clothing and trade shirts, skirts, breechclout and leggings construction will be taught in 1700 Cherokee ... «Cherokee Phoenix, Jan 14»
Reading History in Regalia: Three Stories of History and Culture …
(Annawon's breechclout features a beaded canoe, and he will often wear a wampum sash; he also dances a canoe dance). “And this is what ... «Indian Country Today Media Network.com, Mar 12»
Death of an Indian Chief: Flacco the Younger
He dressed for the occasion, wearing his breechclout and leggings of white buckskin and a string of beads, amulets and silver wrist bands. «Corpus Christi Caller Times, Nov 11»
Guy Vanderhaeghe: Always the Indian, never the cowboy
I was always the Indian,” he laughs. “I had a book that contained all of the instructions for making everything from a breechclout to beadwork. «Globe and Mail, Sep 11»
Comanche Nation: The Rise And Fall Of An 'Empire'
Large brass hoops were in his ears; he was naked to the waist, wearing simply leggings, moccasins and a breechclout. A necklace of beare's ... «NPR, Jun 10»
