What did the kalispel Indians wear?

Answer 1

Men's clothing:

The http://wiki.answers.com/NPTEC/Government.htmPerce men wore long, fringed buckskin shirts, leggings, belts, a breech cloth, and several types of moccasins. Gloves were also occasionally worn by the men. The feathered bonnet was also a trait common to the Plains culture. This was popular by the time the Euro-Americans had arrived. In the cold weather, Nez Perce men wore bison skin robes.

Women's clothing:

Women wore long, belted buckskin dresses, corn husk basketry hats, and knee length moccasins. The dresses were decorated with elk teeth, beads made of shell, bone, and later glass, porcupine quills, and vegetable and mineral dyes. (this is from my report)

Answer 2

The Kalispel or Pend d'Oreilles are a Salishan people of the Rocky Mountains who were in constant conflict with the Blackfoot tribes of the Plains and absorbed many elements of Plains culture, but are classified as Plateau people.

Men wore only deerskin breechclouts reaching the knees in the summer months; in cooler times they added leggings and shirts of elk, deer, mountain goat or antelope hides (collectively called buckskin). Shirts were often decorated with small pieces cut out to make patterns of perforations. Leggings were gartered below the knee, and sometimes had an applied patch of colour around the lower edge of each leg.

Women originally wore a wraparound skirt, with a top shaped like a poncho; later the Plains-style two-skin dress was adopted, some with a fringed and beaded cape. Leggings were short, with beaded strips along the seam and short fringes.

Typical soft-soled moccasins like those of the Blackfoot and Crows were worn, with tall cuffs added in winter.

Blackets were woven from goat wool; cloaks were made from sagebrush, Indian hemp or nettle fibres. Rabbit and other furs were also made into blankets, with very few buffalo hides being traded from the Plains tribes.

Hair was worn long and loose by both men and women. Plains influence led to some people wearing the hair in two braids; women then adopted a special type of decoration at the ends of the braids to indicate puberty. White ermine skins were sometimes used to decorate the braids and white paint was applied each side of the central parting. Fur caps were worn in the winter and some women wore typical Plateau basket hats woven from hemp fibres.

Shells were favoured as jewellery, particularly abalone and dentalia; elk teeth were sewn in rows on the yoke of the dress. When trade cloth was available from white traders, the same elk teeth rows were applied. Men favoured white trade blankets with coloured stripes at one end, making them into winter coats.

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