Wishham girl. This girl is dressed in a heavy suede dress adorned with pearls. The indispensable ornamental attribute of a well-born person was the dental shell in the nasal septum. The headdress is made of shells; shells and junk beads as well as Chinese coins. This type of headdress was worn on special occasions by puberous and not yet married girls. Photo taken from volume 8 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America; with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930; 20 volumes were published.