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Art IV

Eve before they had eaten of the ^tree of knowledgeᵥ f̶o̶r̶b̶i̶d̶d̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶r̶u̶i̶t̶. Within the last few years itis rare to see a perfectly naked child even among the poorest Indians; every one has some covering, though may be only the most ragged of shirts.

On occasions the children are tricked out with all the elaborate finery that the skill and patient labor of the fond mother can arrive at. Most of these dresses are woven? yet made after the patterns handed down from generation to generation. But some are ambitious ^attemptsᵥ of the mother to graft her idea of beauty and fitness on the stiff and ungraceful civilized