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 They resorted to other articles. Thus, in addition to what I have already said respecting cloth of Turkey feathers, Mulberry root back & c. they made many ornamental articles of  white hair dyed red, yellow, black &c. They took the white hair of the oppossum, spun it into thread, died they, some yellow, some black & some a most florid red. These they interwove fancifully to make girdle and garter for the young men, and with the red thread along they wove or knit the cap of the I la ga sta. Sometimes they spun bears hair for black thread, & black cloth. The hair threads were colored yellow by means of a certain root called Talony and black oak bark. S.. as was to be colored red was then put into a dye of blood root. Black was dyed with Black walnut, Butternut & sourwood.
The A ska yu gu ste ga, or great warrior, wore as a common badge of distinction a band of otter skin, hair on, about his head - both arms above the elbows, & both legs just below the knees.