In their hair they braided eagle plumes, hawk wings, or the brilliant plumage of the tanager and redbird.

Trousers or breeches of any sort they despised as marks of effeminacy.
Vermilion was their war emblem; white was only worn at the time of the Green-Corn Dance.

In each town stood the war pole or painted post, a small peeled tree-trunk colored red.

Some of their villages were called white or peace towns; others red or bloody towns.

The white towns were sacred to peace; no blood could be spilt within their borders.