Native Americans Ashton Mclean and Kaeli Russell Summer

Native Americans Ashton Mclean, and Kaeli Russell.

Summer • The women nor the men would wear shirts. And they would wear cloth to cover their parts.

Winter For Winter they would need to wear warm clothes. Made of deer hide, buffalo skin, and wool.

Weddings • They would wear long dresses. Very similar to the U. S. But with the cloth they had.

Men clothing

Women Clothing

Color symbolization (Black) • Night, underworlds, diseased, male or cold. When it’s painted on the face it means “Living. ” • The black color came from wild grapes, hickory bark, alder bark, dogwood bark, and mountain mohogany bark.

Color Symbolization (White) • Winter, death, and snow. White was also the color of peace when worn on the face.

Color Symbolization (Green) • Plant life, earth, summer, and rain. When it was worn under the eyes as face paint it was believed to empower the wearer with night vision. • The green color came from moss, algae, and lily of the berries.

Color Symbolization (Red) • Wounds, sunset, thunder, blood, earth, and day. Used as face paint represented violence. • They red color came from sumac berries, dogwood bark, beets, and poke berries.

Color Symbolization (Yellow) • Sunshine, day, and dawn. As face paint it was worn as death, only by those in mourning. • The color came from onion skins, golden rod stems and flowers, sunflower petals, duck roots, marigold petal, moss, peach leaves, birch leaves, and sage brush.

Color Symbolization (Blue) • Sky, water, female, clouds, lighting, moon, thunder, and sadness. • The blue color came from larkspur petals, alfalfa flowers, and sunflower seeds.

Color Symbolization (The rest) • The rest of colors weren’t used as face paint.