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" She had a kersey coat, and covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward; her arms from her elbows to her hands were covered with bracelets, there were handfuls of necklaces about her neck, and several sorts of jewels in her ears. She had fine... "
The Book of the Indians, Or, Biography and History of the Indians of North ... - Página 54
por Samuel G. Drake - 1841 - 708 páginas
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American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning: Religion, Grief, and ...

Mitchell Robert Breitwieser - 1990 - 244 páginas
...wampum upon his head and shoulders. [My mistress] had a kersey coat, and covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward: her arms from her elbows to...had fine red stockings, and white shoes, her hair powdererd and face painted red, that was always before black. Their attire displays the eclectic assimilativeness...
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Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: P-Z

Dan L. Thrapp - 1991 - 612 páginas
...Rowlandson described her as garbed for a dance: "She had a kersey coat covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward. Her arms from her elbows to...shoes, her hair powdered, and her face painted red." Hodge, HAI; Leach, Flintlock; Dockstader. Wetherill, (Benjamin) Alfred, discoverer of Mesa Verde's...
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Remarkable Providences: Readings on Early American History

John Demos - 1991 - 500 páginas
...wampum upon his head and shoulders. She had a kersey coat, and [was] covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward,- her arms from her elbows to...had fine red stockings and white shoes,- her hair [was] powdered and [her] face painted red, that was always before black. And all the dancers were [dressed]...
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Colonial American Travel Narratives

Various - 1994 - 388 páginas
...his Head and Shoulders. She had a Kersey Coat, and covered with Girdles of Wampom from the Loins and upward; her Arms, from her elbows to her Hands, were...Dancers were after the same manner. There were two other singing and knocking on a Kettle for their Musick. They kept hopping up and down one after another,...
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Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642-1836

Richard VanDerBeets - 1994 - 424 páginas
...shoulders. She had a Kersey Coat, and covered with Girdles of Wampom from the Loins upward: her armes from her elbows to her hands were covered with Bracelets; there were handfulls of Necklaces about her neck, and severall sorts of Jewels in her ears. She had fine red Stokins...
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The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800

Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 páginas
...girdles of wampum upon his head and shoulders. She had a kersey coat, and covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward: her arms from her elbows to...stockings, and white shoes, her hair powdered and face painted red, that was always before black. And all the dancers were after the same manner. There...
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Sex and Sexuality in Early America

Merril D. Smith - 1998 - 352 páginas
...wampum upon his head and shoulders. She had a kersey coat, and [was] covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward: her arms from her elbows to...stockings, and white shoes, her hair powdered and face painted red, that was always before black. And all the dancers were after the same manner.41 The...
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Women's Indian Captivity Narratives

Various - 1998 - 404 páginas
...Head and Shoulders. She had a Kersey Coat,70 and covered with Girdles of Wampom from the Loins and upward. Her Arms from her Elbows to her Hands were...several sorts of Jewels in her Ears. She had fine red Stockins, and white Shoos, her Hair powdered, and her Face painted Red, that was always before Black....
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Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature

James D. Hartman - 1999 - 218 páginas
...wampum upon his head and shoulders. She had a kersey coat and (was) covered with girdles of wampum from the loins upward; her arms from her elbows to...red stockings and white shoes, her hair powdered and face painted red that was always before black. And all the dancers were after the sam : manner. There...
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A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America

Janet Moore Lindman, Michele Lise Tarter - 2001 - 300 páginas
...among the Wampanoag in 1675. Weetamoo, a female leader, started the dance wearing "girdles of wampum from the loins upward; her arms from her elbows to her hands [were] covered with bracelets." She also wore "handfuls of necklaces about her neck and several sorts of jewels on her ears," all to...
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