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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons journals, Vol. 2 1799

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round their Bodies, arms & about
their Heads, in different coulars,
and in various figures, most of
the men & Boys, were painted,
little or much, and many of them
were dressed in a very superflu-
ous manner, as also were the
Women array’d, to that degree
that some of their Strouds, or Pet-
ticoats have cost them twenty
dollars, which are over laid
with silk Ribands of divers
coulars. The females way of da-
nce, is by moveing their feet
sideway when set close together,
and also motioning their hands
over each other, moving gently
round