Dress
of a free man of the Wagons
"I
could see he carried a small rounded shield, glossy, black, lacquered: he
wore a conical, fur rimmed iron helmet, a net of colored chains depending
from the helmet protecting his face, leaving only holes for the eyes. He wore
a quilted jacket and under this a leather jerkin; the jacket was trimmed with
fur and had a for collar; his boots were made of hide and also trimmed with
fur; he had a wide, five-buckled belt. I could not see his face because of
the net of chain that hung before it. I also noted, about his throat, now
lowered, there was a soft leather wind scarf which might, when the helmet
and veil was lifted, be drawn over the mouth and nose, against the wind and
dust of his ride. He was very erect in the saddle. His lance remained on his
back, but he carried in his right hand the small, powerful, horn bow of the
Wagon Peoples and attached to his saddle was a lacquered, narrow, rectangular
quiver containing as many as forty arrows. On the saddle there also hung,
on one side, a coiled robe of braided bosk hide and, on the other, a long,
three-weighted bola f the sort used in hunting tumits and men; in the saddle
itself, on the right side, indicating the rider must be right handed, were
the seven sheaths for the almost legendary quivas, the balanced saddle knives
of the prarie. It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow,
the quiva, and the lance before their parents would consent to give them a
name, for names are precious among the the Wagon Peoples, as among goreans
in general, and they are not to be waisted on one who is likely to die, one
who cannot handle the weapons of the hunt and war. Until the youth has mastered
the bow, the quiva, and the lance he is simply known as first, or the second,
and so on , son of such and such a father."
~Nomads of Gor pg. 10-11~
Dress of a free woman of the Wagons
"Tuchuk
women, unveiled, in their long leather dresses, long hair bound in braids,
tended cooking pots hung on tem-wood tri-pods over dung fires. These women
were unscarred, but like the bosk themselves, each wore a nose ring. That
of the animals is heavy and of gold, that of the women also of gold but tiny
and fine, not unlike the wedding rings of my old world."
~Nomads of Gor pg. 27~
"...free
women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk;
it is claimed by those of the Wagons delightfully I think, that any women
who loves the feel of silk of silk on her body is, in the secrecy of her heart
and blood , a slave girl, whether or not some Master has yet forced her to
don the collar."
~Nomads of Gor pg. 58~
"She
was not as the other women of the Wagon Peoples I had seen, the dour, thin
women with braided hair, bending over the cooking pots. She wore a brief leather
skirt, slit on the right side to allow her the saddle of the kaiila, her leather
blouse was sleeveless; attached to her shoulders was a crimson cape; and her
wild black hair was bound back by a band of scarlet cloth. Like the other
women of the Wagons she wore no veil and, like them, fixed in her nose was
the tiny, fine ring that proclaimed her people." "'.......She seemed
much different than the other Tuchuk women' I said... Kamchak laughed, the
colored scars wrinkling on his broad face, 'Of course,' said Kamchak, she
has been raised to be a fit prize in the games of Love War"
~Nomads of Gor pg. 32 and 33~
Dress of slaves of the Wagon Peoples
"Among
the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear four articles,
two red two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka,
or long , narrow strip of black leather, fits over the cord in front, passes
under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the cord in back; the
chatka is drawn tight; the Kalmack is then donned; it is a short sleeveless
vest of black leather; lastly the koora, a strip of red cloth, matching the
Curla, is wound about the head, to hold the hair back, for slave women, among
the Wagon Peoples, are not permitted to braid, or otherwise dress their hair;
it must be, save for the koora, worn loose. for a male slave or Kajirus, of
the Wagon Peoples, and there are few, save for the work chains, to be clad
Kajir means to wear the Kes, a short, sleeveless work tunic of black leather."
~Nomads of Gor pg. 30~
Winter dress of the Wagon Peoples
"The
Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights
were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples and their slaves as well, wore
boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore
furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping, ear-flapped caps that tied
under the chin; in this time there was often no way to mark the distinction
between the free woman and the slave girl, save that the hair of the latter
must needs be unbound; in some cases of course, the Turian collar was visible,
if work on the outside of the coat, usually under the furred collar; the men
too, fee and slave were dressed similarly, save that the Kajiri, or he-slaves
wore shackles, usually with a run of about a foot of chain."
~Nomads of Gor, pg. 59~
kajira
"Among
the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajira means, for a girl, to wear four articles,
two red two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka,
or long , narrow strip of black leather, fits over the cord in front, passes
under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the cord in back; thw
Chatka is drawn tight; the Kalmak is then donned; it is a short sleeveless
vest of black leather; lastly the Koora, a strip of red cloth, matching the
Curla, is wound about the head, to hold the hair back, for slave women, among
the Wagon Peoples, are not permitted to braid, or otherwise dress their hair;
it must be, save for the Koora, worn loose. For a male slave or Kajirus, of
the Wagon Peoples, and there are few, save for the work chains, to be clad
Kajir means to wear the Kes, a short, sleeveless work tunic of black leather.
"As Kamchak and I walked to his wagon, I saw several girls, here and
there, clad Kajir; they were magnificent; they walked with the true brazen
insolence of the slave girl, the wench who knows that she is owned, whom men
have found beautiful enough, and exciting enough, to collar. The dour women
of the Wagon Peoples, I saw, looked on these girls with envy and hatred."
-- Nomads of Gor, pg 30
"both
girls wore the Sirik, a light chain favored for female slaves by many Gorean
masters; it consists of a Turian-type collar, a loose, rounded circle of steel,
to which a light, gleaming chain is attached; should the girl stand, the chain,
dangling from her collar, falls to the floor; it is about ten or twelve inches
longer than is required to reach from her collar to her ankles; to this chain,
at the natural fall of her wrists, is attached a pair of slave bracelets;
at the end of the chain there is attached another device, a set of linked
ankle rings, which, when closed about her ankles, lifts a portion of the slack
chain from the floor; the Sirik is an incredibly graceful thing and designed
to enhance the beauty of its wearer; perhaps it should only be added that
the slave bracelets and ankle rings may be removed from the chain and used
separately; this also, of course, permits the Sirik to function as a slave
leash."
-- Nomads of Gor, pg 42
"Elizabeth
Cardwell took the meat in her two hands, confined before her by slave bracelets
and the chain of the sirik, and bending her head, her hair falling forward,
ate it. She, a slave, had accepted meat from the hand of Kamchak of the Tuchuks.
She belonged to him now."
-- Nomads of Gor, pg 54
"the
Wagon Peoples enjoy being served by civilized slaves of great beauty and high
station; during the day, in the heat and dust, such girls will care for the
wagon bosk and gather fuel for the dung fires; at night they will please their
masters."
-- Nomads of Gor, pg 57
"The
Turian camisk, on the other hand, if it were to be laid out on the floor,
would appear somewhat like an inverted "T" in which the bar of the
"T" would be beveled on each side. It is fastened with a single
cord. The cord binds the garment on the girl at three points, behind the neck,
behind the back, and in front at the waist. The garment itself, as might be
supposed, fastens behind the girls neck, passes before her, passes between
her legs and is then lifted and, folding the two sides of the T's bar about
her hips, ties in front. The Turian camisk, unlike the common camisk, will
cover a girl's brand; on the other hand, unlike the common camisk, it leaves
the back uncovered and can be tied, and is, snugly, the better to disclose
the girl's beauty."
-- Nomads of Gor, pg 90
"Few
it seemed to me, much objected to leaving the luxurious delights of the gardens
for the freedom of the winds and prairies, the dust, the smell of bosk, the
collar of a man who would master them utterly, but before whom they would
stand as human shes, individual, each different, each alone and marvelous
and prized in the secret world of her master's wagon."
-- Nomads of Gor, pg 332