In Their Dress
And General Appearance They Also Much Resemble Those Nations;
The Men Wearing A Robe Of Deer- Or Antelope-Skin, Under Which A Few
Of Them Have A Short Leathern Shirt.
The most striking difference is
among the females, the Sokulk women being more inclined to corpulency
than any we have yet seen.
Their stature is low, their faces are broad,
and their heads flattened in such a manner that the forehead
is in a straight line from the nose to the crown of the head.
Their eyes are of a dirty sable, their hair is coarse and black,
and braided without ornament of any kind. Instead of wearing,
as do the Chopunnish, long leathern shirts highly decorated with beads
and shells, the Sokulk women have no other covering but a truss or piece
of leather tied round the hips, and drawn tight between the legs.
The ornaments usually worn by both sexes are large blue or white beads,
either pendant from their ears, or round the neck, wrists, and arms;
they have likewise bracelets of brass, copper, and born, and some
trinkets of shells, fishbones, and curious feathers.
"The houses of the Sokulks are made of large mats of rushes, and are generally
of a square or oblong form, varying in length from fifteen to sixty feet,
and supported in the inside by poles or forks about six feet high.
The top is covered with mats, leaving a space of twelve or fifteen
inches the whole length of the house, for the purpose of admitting
the light and suffering the smoke to escape.
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