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The Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) also known as the Iroquois people, originally lived in New York and are known for many historical changes. Originally, at the start of the Confederacy, which is speculated to many different dates from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century, there were only five nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca). By the early eighteenth century, the Tuscarora joined the Confederacy to make it six nations. Materially, the Haudenosaunee were typical with other tribes, insomuch that they had several different types of headgear that were worn by both men and women. What makes them stand apart from other nations is their feathered hats that the men wear. This hat is known in language as gustoweh, kastoweh or traditional feathered cap.
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How do you pronounce Gustoweh?
gus-TOW-uh
How did the onondaga wear their feathers?
Your question supposes that all Onondaga men wore a gustoweh all the time as a tribal identification, which is not true. Furthermore, the idea that all Onondaga gustoweh simply had two upright eagle feathers is also untrue, despite the simplistic illustrations published on many modern websites. Different makers of gustoweh would arrange the feathers in different ways; some Ondondaga examples have just two upright eagle feathers; others have one vertical and one at an angle; others have two eagle feathers and another feather attached as a kind of pendant hanging at the rear; others have many other types of feather as well as the eagle feathers. Different makers would also cut the feathers to different heights, some being cut quite short, others left untrimmed at full height. See link below for an image of a real Onondaga gustoweh:
What do beads and feathers mean on the shoshone Indians?
Red Feathers sybolize physical vitality, good fortune and life. This is the basic symbolism I could find. Now I'm not neccessarily trusting the source of this answer. In Native American culture the overall symbolism is derived through how the feather came into your possession. Ie) found it, a bird left it for you, you pulled it from a bird. So it depends on the type of bird, how you got it, whether it was in a dream or awake etc.
How did the Mohawk tribe make their clothing?
The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) mainly wore shirts, pants, leggings, robes and capes. The men wore feathers in their hair and wore jewelry all over their bodies. Most of them wore a ring in their nostrils. The woman wore skirts, and robes mainly made out of deer skin. They wore moccasins as their footwear.The Iroquois wore clothes provided by buffalo hides and/or deer skin.The Iroquois also wore cloths for clothes. Answers provided by, Brainboy08The answer depends on the time period - the Iroquois tribes had early contact with Europeans and were very quick to adopt ready-made garments (such as shirts).Originally, men of the Iroquois confederacy wore a soft-tanned deerskin breechclout with short flaps front and back, or (for ceremonial occasions) a kind of kilt reaching to the knees and tied with a belt. Leggings were made rather loose and sewn up the front of the leg; an embroidered strip covered the seam. Leggings were gartered below the knee. A simple tunic of two deerskins fastened at the shoulders was added in cold weather.Women originally wore just a wrap-round skirt reaching to below the knee, with knee-length gartered leggings. Decoration was of moose-hair embroidery or quillwork. In summer no other clothing was worn, but in winter a fringed deerskin cape was added.Moccasins had a square flap, with moose-hair embroidery; sometimes shoes for summer were of woven basswood fibres or cornhusk.Warm robes were of bear or elk hides, or the pelts of smaller animals sewn together.Under white influence, blankets, cloth, shirts and dresses were adopted and many Iroquois became good at working silver - they produced brooches, headbands, armbands gorgets and pendants.See links below for images:
