Natives of the Southeast

May 17, 2012

The southeast in North America is flat, warm, and humid, and it has many thick forests, subtropical lands, and swamps that are home to varieties of plants and animals/ It was home to hundreds of different native tribes who fished, hunter, and farmed until the European settlers arrived.
These tribes came from different cultural groups, but the hot climate caused them to develop similar light clothing styles and decorate body paints. The tribes were: the Cherokee, who is an Iroquois tribe, the Powhatans, who is an Algonquian tribe, and the Choctaw and the Chicasaw, who spoke Musckogan languages.

Posted by Jane Daoheuang.

Necklaces and Body Paint

May 17, 2012

Men and women wore different type of style of course, very similar but still a little different. Men wore breechcloths and leggings made from tanned deer hides that is sometimes covered with grass or leaves. Women wore fringed skirts, and sometimes shirts that are made from tightly woven grass or deerskin. Wealthier men and women wore sashes and deerskin cloaks decorated with turkey feathers, porcupine quills, beads, tree bark, and fur from bears, bisons, and small game animals.
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Posted by Jane Daoheuang.

These Indian men are bare-chested and painted with body paint. They are wearing feathers on their head, a necklace, and a fringed garment around his waist. The creator of this illustration is by Theodor de Bry and was created in 1590.

Ishtaboli

Ishtaboli is a stick and ball game that the French colonists renamed lacrosse. The Choctaw men really loved to play this ball game. The game was very violent so the Choctaw called it "the little brother of war." They played in fields that hold up to seven hundred ishtaboli players at one time that the Choctaw built. Warriors and nobles when they play, they wear loincloths and fringed belts and elaborate structures covered in egret feathers that stuck out behind them like tails. They also wear headdresses to play the game. They long sticks that they carried to play was made from wood with webbed ends woven from strips of deer hide.

A Choctaw ishtaboli player

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