**Always thought their was something funny about all those feathers...**
Catlin said the costumes of the men and homos of the tribes were very different.
The warriors, wore Eagle and Hawk feathers.
The gays, duck feathers.
The warriors wore buffalo horns and deer skins for clothing.
The gays soft goat skins.
The warriors had scalp locks of slain enemies and bear claws on theirs.
The gays had nothing. fighting and hunting bears was too dangerous for them. They stayed with the women.
The warriors wore their hair in a warrior’s fashion.
The Gays wore their hair the way the women did.
The Warriors hated the un-manly gays.
Catlin said they were the equivalent of “drone bees” in the tribe, doing nothing.
Maybe. Or that could just be his own interpretation. Whites were less accepting of such people than Indians.