Notes and queries on anthropology / edited for the Council of the Anthropological Institute by John George Garson, M.D. and Charles Hercules Read, F.S.A.

Date:
1892
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    ETHNOGRAPHY No. I.—CLOTHING. 1. Is any clothing used, or do the natives go entirely naked ? 2. Is there any distinction made in tiie clothing of the sexes, or of persons of various ranks ? 3. Is it varied according to the seasons of the year, or for special festivals ? 4. Are there any sumptuary laws as to clothing ? 5. Are any recognized peculiarities of dress restricted to the subdivisions of tribes ] (5. Is any deviation in such peculiarities considered improper ? 7. Are the clothes made by each individual or family 1 or are there any recognized makers of clothes ? 8. How do they rank ? 9. Is there any thing which corresponds to what we term fashion? 10. Of what materials are the clothes chiefly made? 11. Are they native or imported? 12. Are the clothes much shaped or simple wrapper's ? 13. How are the latter folded ? 14. Is there any difference between the indoor and out-of-door clothing? 15. Are any portions of clothing removed on saluting or visiting a superior? 16. How are the garments put together ? 17. If sewn, have the needles eyes ? or is the thread passed through a hole pre- viously mads ? 18. What kind of thread is used ? 19. Do clothes descend from parents to children ? or are they burned with the individual who wore them, or otherwise destroyed ? 20. Is there any uniform garment worn (a) by fighting men, or (b) by medicine men and priests ? 21. Is any addition made to the dress of a man who has killed an enemy or some for- midable animal ?