Copyright Laws. These images are not to be downloaded or reproduced in any way. If you would like to purchase a copy of a specific image, please contact media hmns. All rights reserved. Plains tribes tended to wear the same types of clothing, but the styles could be very different. Men and boys would wear a breechcloth. This is a piece of material that went between their legs and was held up with a belt, as well as leggings that went up the entire length of their legs and were attached to the belt.
During the 19th century, European trousers would have been adopted, but knee-length leggings were still worn to protect the pants. Shirts made out of animal hide were also common. A woman's outfit consisted of a calf-length dress made of hide or trade cloth, as well as knee-length leggings to protect their legs. Dress styles varied greatly across the Plains. These were obtained through trade with American Indian tribes that lived near bodies of water, mainly the Northwest Coast groups.
Also through trade, fabric dresses were incorporated into the repertoire of Plains groups. Traditionally, while men obtained the hides through hunting, women did the rest. They tanned the hides, making them soft and pliable, and then constructed the garment and added the intricate decoration. Designs on clothing symbolize the things the maker saw around her, such as the sky, moon and stars, water, animals, and tepees.
Sometimes the designs also depicted important events. While styles of dresses varied somewhat throughout the Plains region, a basic style was the two-skin, or binary dress. It was made by sewing together two hide panels made of elk, bighorn sheep, or deer skin. The hind legs of the animal became the shoulder area of the dress. Shoulder seams were sewn a few inches below the uneven edges of the skins, and the edges flapped over with the tails hanging down at the center of the chest and back.
Another style of dress was similar to the binary style, but with a separate third piece making up a larger yoke that sits around the neck and shoulder area. Leggings and moccasins were worn also. Before beads became available, dresses and other clothing were adorned with shells, porcupine quills, and other natural materials, and paint made from minerals, clays, and plants mixed with a binder such as animal fat.
Even after newer trade materials became readily available and widely used, most of these time-honored materials were still utilized. Traditional dress of men of the Plains region before the midth century included leggings, moccasins, and a breechcloth, and in the winter, a buffalo robe. Adornments included hair suspensions which were tied to the hair, armbands, and earrings.
Early shirts were a poncho shape made of two panels of hide sewn across the shoulders leaving a neck opening. Sleeves were attached on the sides. The hemline of the sleeves and sides of the shirt were not sewn, and fringe was added. It is decorated with glass seed beads, feathers, horsehair, and quills. Many of the more ornate items were, and are still, used mainly for celebrations or for highly honored individuals. Adobe homes housed one family, but the homes were connected together so many families lived next door to each other.
Depending on where they lived, Great Basin tribes, Pauite, Shoshone, Utes and Washoes consumed roots, bulbs, seeds, nuts especially acorns and pinons , berries chokecherries, service berries , grasses, cattails, ducks, rabbits, squirrels, antelope, beavers, deer, bison, elk, lizards, insects, grubs and fish salmon. The Plains Indians hunted wild animals and collected wild fruits. They also got some food by gardening.
For example, they planted corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers. Some things that they hunted were elk, deer, fish, bison, and fowl. Here are a couple of weapons they had to use. Knives, bows and arrows, tomahawks, gunstock war clubs, and guns. Teepee, Longhouse, and Pueblo Homes. Teepees were the homes of the nomadic tribes of the Great Plains.
A teepee was built using a number of long poles as the frame.
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