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The Princes of Virginia … wear the hair of their heads long and bind up the end of the same in a knot under their ears. Yet they cut the top of their heads from the forehead to the nape of the neck in manner of a cockscomb, sticking a [feather] of some bird at the beginning of the crest upon their foreheads, and another short one on both sides of their ears. They hang at their ears either thick pearls, or somewhat else, as the claw of some great bird, as cometh in to their fancy. Moreover they either pounce [tattoo] or paint their forehead, cheeks, chin, body, arms, and legs … They wear a chain about their necks of pearls or beads of copper, which they much esteem, and thereof wear they also bracelets on their arms … They hang before them the skin of some beast very finely dressed in such sort, that the tail hangeth down behind. […] When they go to battle they paint their bodies in the most terrible manner that they can devise.