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Questions and Answers about the Spokane Indians
 

What did they wear?
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The way that the local Indians dressed changed over time.

For the last several hundred years, all Plateau peoples used tailored skin garments of the type well-known from the Plains Indians.

Before that, both men and women wore a bark breech-cloth or apron, and a twined bark poncho falling a little below the waist.

During the cold season men wrapped their legs with fur, and women had leggings woven from the fibers of the hemp plant. In winter, they also wore rabbit-fur robes or other skin robes.

Sahaptin women had twined basket hats. Men everywhere had headbands. Caps of fur and feathered head-dresses only appeared in the last two hundred years.










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December 24, 2004
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