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Pioneers in Canada

CHAPTER IV
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The shoes ("Moccasins") were made of the skin of deer, bears, or beavers.

In addition to this the men in cold weather wore a great cloak.

The edges of these cloaks would often be decorated with bands of brown and red colour alternating with strips of a whitish-blue, and ornamented with bands of porcupine quills.

These, which were originally white or grey in colour, had been previously dyed a fine scarlet with colouring matter from the root of the bed-straw (_Galium tinctorum_).

The women were loaded with necklaces of violet or white shell beads, bracelets, ear-rings, and great strings of beads falling below the waist.


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