An Indian’s waist-band.
1878. The Navajo boys are plunging and splashing in the tepid bath, their handsome dark bodies shining through the clear fluid like bronze statues vivants. Around each boy’s waist is the tight “geestring,” from which a single strip of cloth runs between the limbs from front to back—these two articles never being removed from the person in the presence of another.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 249.
