. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . chcloth and boots. These, mounted on fine animals, andarmed with a- lance or bow, sometimes made their ap-pearance among the ragged and motley groups whichvisited our camps. A helmet-shaped cap of deer skin,fitting close to the head, and covered on the top witha bunch of feathers, is worn by many ; while others havestraw hats, taken from the heads of Mexicans whomthey have killed
. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . chcloth and boots. These, mounted on fine animals, andarmed with a- lance or bow, sometimes made their ap-pearance among the ragged and motley groups whichvisited our camps. A helmet-shaped cap of deer skin,fitting close to the head, and covered on the top witha bunch of feathers, is worn by many ; while others havestraw hats, taken from the heads of Mexicans whomthey have killed. Another and very picturesque orna-ment which the hatless and capless have recourse to, isa wreath of grass or leaves, twined around their headsand projecting well over their eyes, to protect themfrom the sun. The Mexican serape is also worn bythose who have become the possessors of such a usefularticle of dress by murdering its former owner. Thewomen wear jackets or tunics of deer skin, more orless ornamented, a profusion of beads, when they can COPPER MINES. 329 get them, and deer-skin leggins. Most of them wearunbleached cotton or calico shirts, which they obtainof the Indian traders or at the Apacho Head-dress and On one occasion our camp was visited by a bandof Navajo Indians, four hundred of whom wereencamped on the banks of the Gila. This is a formida-ble, warlike, and treacherous tribe, which descend fromtheir strongholds in the canons west of Santa Fe, androb the inhabitants of New Mexico of their cattle andsheep. They had heard of our party, and had takenadvantage of the friendly manner in which theApaches came to us, to accompany them. With theexception of a different style in their boots, and in themanner of arranging their hair, their dress appearedthe same. Their bows, arrows, and lances were thesame, and the helmet-shaped head-dress did not mate-rially differ. The Navajos had a very fine descriptionof woollen blanket of their own manufacture, which
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