Girls decorated theirs with dye and porcupine quills. All wore leather leggings hung from the waist belt when passing through briars and rough country. Leather was prepared by letting skins soak in a running brook to loosen the hair. Then brains were smeared on the flesh side to soften the hide. A stone scraper, and finally a smooth wooden scraper was worked back and forth to break the fibers.
Women wove soft bird breast feathers into warm capes and skirts for themselves and the girls.
Men wore one or two decorative eagle or turkey feathers in their topknot, or something like a sweatband with feathers sticking up from it. The typical Western Indian Chief headdress with long strings of colored feathers dropping behind was unknown in Maine. Boy s hair was cut short until they were sixteen. Girls and women let their hair grow long and tied it behind, dressed with colorful porcupine quills. Adults spent hours on their hairstyles, which were different from tribe to tribe.