The squaws were shy, and seldom came near the officers' quarters.

Some of the younger girls were extremely pretty; they had delicate hands, and small feet encased in well-shaped moccasins.

They wore short skirts made of stripped bark, which hung gracefully about their bare knees and supple limbs, and usually a sort of low-necked camisa, made neatly of coarse, unbleached muslin, with a band around the neck and arms, and, in cold weather a pretty blanket was wrapped around their shoulders and fastened at the breast in front.

In summer the blanket was replaced by a square of bright calico.

Their coarse, black hair hung in long braids in front over each shoulder, and nearly all of them wore an even bang or fringe over the forehead.