The ordinary covering for the head of the men was the skin of a bear's head.

"Thus accoutred, with the addition of a bow and quiver, a stone axe, and a bone knife, a Naskwapi man possessed no small degree of pride and self-importance" (James M'Kenzie).
The handsomest tribes of Amerindians encountered by the Canadian pioneers seem to have been the Ojibwes of Lake Superior, the Iroquois south of the St.Lawrence, and the Mandans of the upper Missouri.
Until well on in the nineteenth century none of the Canadian Amerindians were particular about wearing clothes if the weather was hot.

The men, especially, were either quite oblivious of what was seemly in clothing (except perhaps the Iroquois) or thought it necessary to go naked into battle, or to remove all clothing before taking part in religious ceremonies.
It is commonly supposed that the Red Man was a rather glum person, seldom seen to smile and averse to showing any emotion.

That is not the impression one derives from the many pen portraits of Amerindians in the journals of the great pioneers.

Here, on the contrary, you see the natives laughing, smiling, kissing eagerly their wives and children after an absence, displaying exuberant and cordial friendship towards the white man who treated them well, having love quarrels and fits of raging jealousy, moods of deep remorse after a fight, touching devotion to their comrades or chiefs, and above all to their children.
They are most emotional, indeed, and, apart from this chapter you will find frequent descriptions of how they wept at times over the remembrance of their dead relations and friends.
Hearne remarked, in 1772, that when two parties of Athapaska Indians met, the ceremonies which passed between them were very formal.