Ottawa indians

[Huron34]

First, the researches:

Dress:
a -Breechclout, leather, front and back flap, fitted and decorated with quilwork.

b -Leggings, were thigh length silple tube of hide, fringed on the outside seams and gartered below the knees.

c- tanned deeskin ligthweight robes were worn in the cooler weather. During the winter months robes were made of small animals pelts sewntogether. The fur was worn on the outside. rabbit furs were made intostrip and woven so that both the inside and outside had fur for wannth.

e- mocassins, were deerskin and sometimes moosehide one piece soft soled with seam from toe to instep and the sole puckered into it. The seam was often covered with a stip of quillwork. Cuffs were usually attached and could be worn down or up around theankle fastened with thong. The sole was later puckeredinto a U or oval shaped vamp as among the Ojibwa.

Hairstyles:
The roach was worn by some men.
a- The head was often shaved except for a central tuft standing high from front to back decreasinfin height towards the back and a scalplock hanging from the crown. These were nicknamed the "Cheveux relevés" or High-Hairs by the French, as Champlain explains, they wore their hairs 'elevated and arranged very high and better combed than our courtiers'.
b- Another way men wore their hair was straight up in the front with two to four braids hanging in the back

Accessories and jewelry:

Belts decorated with quillwork, woven sashes and armband woven in different colors were worn. Woven shoulder bags designed with animals (mytic animals) and birds were used. These bags were made on nettle fiber.
Bones, claws, teeth, shells and native copper were used to make necklaces and other ornaments.
Nose rings and pierced ears were worn by both sexes

Embellishements of the body and face:
Designs of lizards, snakes, geometrical designs were tattoed over the entire body.
Face and body were painted with red, black, green and brown pigments.
The Ottawa were:  "much carved about the body in division of various patterns" and painted their faces in different colours

And late:

European materials like cloth, beads and metal replaced materials from nature like deerskin, quills, tec; for everiday wear.
troussers were the last garments to adopt by the men to replace the breechclout and leggings.

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The colors of deerskin was the same of iroquois (brown dark or ligth, chocolate), for leggins, breechclout and mocassins;

The bag

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Ottawa warrior: hairs and tattoos

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ottawa warriors : warpaint

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ottawa warrior : hairs

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Mocassins

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Figurines look the hairs, first style and the mocassin (in work)

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figurines, look the hairs, second style, and the mocassins (in work)


and now, dears Sirs, with your brushes!

[Huron34]

And now Charles LANGLADES, fifty Ottawa by mother/fifty french by father, after montreal, lived at Michilimackinac and in Ottawa village at cadet of French Compagnie de Marine. In 1752, C. Langlade and Pontiac (250 Ottawa and Chippewa warriors), attecked the village of Pickawillany (Miami), and killed a pro-Britich chief called "La Demoiselle".For these action, the Governor Dusquesne  appointed Langlade as Indian agent for the "pays d'en haut", distibuting annuities to the Western tribes. In 1754, Governor Dusquesne asked Langlade to raise an army of Indian auxiliaries to help defend Fort Duquesne. 1755 Langlade was commissined an Ensig. He enlisted his old friend Pontiac. At the Monongahela, when Beaujeu was killed in a head-on assault on the British, langlade and Pontiac, and other officier of french Compagnie de marine, prevailed upon Dumas to change tactics, and etc..... The sketch said:" langlade into his ottawa culture and dressed in Ottawa style"... and it's this men who intented to make in figurine§
For more information, see the life of langlade on Internet.

Wich is the green employed by the indians, I don't no. Examples are: green earth/water/animal oil, moss, flower, berries and water/oil or oak bark, crabapple leaves, barck and water/oil....
If somebody had written examples (ligth or dark green color), thank you by advance........

[Huron34]

more photo of langlade and workbend:
Warpaint: No face entirely paint, that patterns and tattooings.
For the body, more or less thick lines of various colors and tattooings of different patterns.
Not to forget the symbol of the clan. Here the Tortoise.

On the bag, the pattern is the mythical panther of water

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[mikedemana]

Love the research! I would say you are free to use a variety of shades in the appropriate colors. As a deerskin is worn and sweated in day after day all year long, the colors will likely begin to fade. Don't feel locked into a uniform chocolate brown, for example. Newly-made clothes would be that color, likely getting progressively lighter and more faded the older it gets.

Great stuff, as always!

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com

[Grimrod]

 Where can I find the miniature thats in the Charles LANGLADES section?..be perfect for a scout character I'm  planning.

[Huron34]

For the french, you are Charles Langlade, Levraux de Langis and Marin de La Malgue and of sure Green stuff!