Dress of the Pisch-quit-pas

On April 25th, 1806, below the Umatilla River, in the territory of the Umatilla, Meriwether Lewis wrote about the dress of the people he called Pish-quit-pahs:

...the Pish-quit-pahs,... they are generally pleasantly featured of good statue and well proportioned... the Pishquitpah women for the most part dress with short shirts which reach to their knees long leggings and mockersons, they also use large robes; some of them weare only the truss and robe they brade their hair as before described but the heads of neither male nor female of this tribe are so much flattened as the nations lower down on this river. (Lewis, from Moulton V.7, 165-6)

Related pages:

Dress of the Pisch quit pas  |  Dress of the Walla Wallas
Nez Perce Men  |  Nez Perce Women  |  Chopunnish Ornaments