Handbook to the ethnographical collections . ]]nrope;uis came intogeneral contact with them they seemed in the main a people ofmounted hunters and warriors, under chiefs whose authority wascontrolled by the council of the fighting men of the picturesque and warlike life led tho Europeans to draw toodistinct a dividing line between these nomadic horsemen and the 268 AMERICA settled and semi-civilized peoples to the south and wliere a settled agricultural life was possible, the nativeshad no inherent oujection to it: much of their apparent savagerymust bo ascribed to t
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . ]]nrope;uis came intogeneral contact with them they seemed in the main a people ofmounted hunters and warriors, under chiefs whose authority wascontrolled by the council of the fighting men of the picturesque and warlike life led tho Europeans to draw toodistinct a dividing line between these nomadic horsemen and the 268 AMERICA settled and semi-civilized peoples to the south and wliere a settled agricultural life was possible, the nativeshad no inherent oujection to it: much of their apparent savagerymust bo ascribed to the nomadic conditions which the multii^li-cation of horses encouraged. The colour of the American Indians skin is a coppery brown ;the cheek bones are prominent, and the nose aquiline. The hair islong and black, but the face is kept smooth. His dress was madeof carefully prepared skins of the deer or mountain-goat. Tiieskins were washed in wood ashes and water, and the hair scrapedoff. They were then pegged out on the ground or on a frame,.
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