They do this with a needle. They put the needle into dye,
and then prick the skin with it.
The men wear a piece of cloth around their waists and a large cloak of
fur. They sometimes wear boots made of the skin of horses' legs. The
women wear gowns fastened at the neck with a pin. They also have
cloaks like the men.
[Illustration: Patagonians at Home.]
The boys and girls wear no clothes until they are four years old.
After they are four years old they wear the same kind of clothes their
fathers and mothers wear. The young girls wear their hair in braids.
If their hair is not long enough, they make it longer by tying
horsehair to it.
The houses in Patagonia are tents made of skins. There are rooms in
the tents, and each grown-up person has a room. The fire is made
inside the tent on the floor.
The people in Patagonia eat gua-na-co and ostrich meat. Some of the
people drink a kind of tea made from the leaves of a plant. The leaves
are first crushed fine, then put into water. They drink this tea
through a small tube with many holes in it. The holes are so small
that the pieces of leaves cannot come through. This tea is very good
to drink. It makes the people very strong.
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