What Are The Famous Makah Clothing?
Most Makah men habitually did not wear clothing at all. However, there is a small portion who wore breech-clouts at times. Women made their short skirts from cedar bark or grass. The women of the Northwest Coast developed textiles from the adaptation of their basket designs, using cedar bark or spruce roots. During rainy days, they wore tule rush capes. The Makah people would put on tunics, moccasins and cloaks on their feet when the weather turned colder. The community began to wear blanket robes only after the influence by the European. Both men and women wore a basketry hat at times in traditional Makah clothing. It was ingeniously made of delicately woven spruce root and, more often than not, used to display a person’s status and family relations based on the different designs and patterns. Different colors painted on the faces indicated the oncoming events like for festive occasions, religious ceremonies and war. Women have the traditions of tribal tattoo designs. They habitually
