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"The Comanchees are a fine and noble-looking race of people, with an extraordinary grace and elasticity of movement; their forms are symmetrical and their limbs remarkably well-rounded. Their persons are almost always tastefully painted, with some part of their body bare, exposing the muscles in all their graceful and elastic action. Their dress, though often scanty, is tastefully arranged, consisting of beautifully dressed deer-skins, tastefully ornamented with fringes and porcupine quills, and generally worn with leggings and moccasins, all of which are beautifully wrought and ornamented." from George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 94.
The men of the Comanche tribe are bold and daring horsemen, whose time is chiefly taken up in war and the chase; the women are their slaves, performing all the drudgery in their domestic life, such as dressing the skins, making their clothes, erecting their wigwams, and burdening themselves like beasts of burden, in carrying wood, water, and provisions, as well as their children, upon their backs." from George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 96.
