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Female Apache scout, Arizona, USA, 1886
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Why the weirdly huge gloves? They definitely don't help you shoot.
My guess is for horse riding
I guess so, but why so huge? Modern riding gloves are really short.
Tumbleweeds don't fuck around. The gloves are for the scrub and brush in the deserts of the SW US. They didn't have any synthetic materials at the time.