A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . oulders, History of Virginia and Virginians. 27 but the hair of the jnen was cut very close on on-e sideand allowed to grow long on the other, and brought upin a single lock on the top of the head, called the ^ scalplock. This was a token of defiance or dare to their ene-mies, affording a good hand-hold in a hand-to-hand fight,and enabled them to tear off the scalp as a trophy of vic-tory from the foe when slain. In summer both sexeswent almost naked, and in winter clothed themselves inthe skins of the large animals they had killed in hu
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . oulders, History of Virginia and Virginians. 27 but the hair of the jnen was cut very close on on-e sideand allowed to grow long on the other, and brought upin a single lock on the top of the head, called the ^ scalplock. This was a token of defiance or dare to their ene-mies, affording a good hand-hold in a hand-to-hand fight,and enabled them to tear off the scalp as a trophy of vic-tory from the foe when slain. In summer both sexeswent almost naked, and in winter clothed themselves inthe skins of the large animals they had killed in great occasions the men wore head-dresses of feathersand the claws and sometimes the heads of wild beasts andstrings of shells as ornaments, and the women wore dyedfeathers and shells strung as beads. They made softshoes, called moccasins, of buckskin, and leggins ofthe same material, which they sometimes ornamentedwith beads or shells. How They Lived.—They lived in huts which they calledwigwams, made of poles driven into the ground in a li^.
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