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Clothing worn by Free Women in the tropical jungle region on Gor
Hair worn in variety of fashions There were more than two hundred individuals in the great court, both men and women, of high station, and certain commoners with causes to plead. Too, there were guards, and chieftains, and envoys. The robes were generally of animal skin, some marvelously marked. There was much gold and silver jewelry. Anklets and wristlets of feathers were common. The hair of the men and women was worn in a variety of fashions. Too, there were ornate headdresses in evidence, usually of skins and feathers. In the lips of some of the men were brass plugs. Facial tattooing, in various designs, was common. The opulence and color of the court of Bila Huruma was quite impressive. I was sure that it would have shamed the display and pageantry of many Ubars in the north. There were various racial types represented in the court, almost all black. I was the only white present. Explorers Tende, wearing yellow robes emroidered in gold Slowly the state platform was drawn toward us. It, fastened planks, extending across the thwarts of four long canoes, like pontoons, moved slowly toward us, drawn by chained slaves. On the platform, shaded by a silk canopy, was a low dais, covered with silken cushions. “Why did you tell him which one of us was Kisu?” I asked. “She would know him, would she not?” he asked. “That is true,” I said. On the cushions, reclining, on one elbow, in yellow robes, embroidered with gold, in many necklaces and jewels, lay a lovely, imperious-seeming girl. “It is Tende,” whispered one of the men, “the daughter of Aibu, high chief of the Ukungu district.” Explorers Tende's robes again Tende stifled an angry cry. Kisu threw her, in her soiled robes, to the surface of the raft. He untied her hands from behind her back and, turning her roughly, almost as though she might have been a slave, retied them before her body, leaving a long loose end which might serve as a tether. She gasped with indignation and, lying on her side, looked at him with anger. He then untied her ankles and threw her from the raft. He led her by the bound wrists, she stumbling in her robes, about the raft and tied the tether on her hands to the sternpost. of the canoe. The tether was some seven feet in length. She stood in the water, in the muddied robes. The water was to her hips. Explorers Robes are such that it is difficult to wade in water “Please, Kisu,” begged Tende, “let me enter the canoe.” But he did not respond to her. He did not even look at her. “I cannot wade in these robes!” she wept. “Please, Kisu!” Explorers “Kisu,” cried the girl. ‘Take me into the canoe!” But, again, he did not speak to her. “Kisu!” she cried. “I cannot wade in these robes!” “Do you wish me to remove them from you?” asked Kisu. “Were you not once fond of me, Kisu?” she called. “You are the daughter of my hated enemy, Aibu,” said Kisu, coldly. Explorers Wearing undergarments along with robes (appears similar to layers of robes worn by Free Women of the Cities - main exception, no mention of veils She then saw her clothing, with the exception of a silken strip, a foot in width and some five feet in length, ripped from an undergarment, dropped overboard into the marsh. Kisu carefully folded the silken strip into small squares and slipped it between his waist and his loincloth’s twisted-cloth belt. It could serve her as a brief, wrap-around skirt, similar to those of the other girls, if he later saw fit to clothe her. Explorers gorean_librarian@yahoo.com 
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