Imitating their Prussian counterparts, French grenadiers are described as wearing bearskins as early as 1761. The bodies of dead berserkers were laid out in bearskins prior to their funeral rites. The kettle drummers, with their white bearskins, wore a white plume. The drummers of both the Scots and Irish Guards wear their bearskins in full dress. The first of these bearskins were distributed in the 1960s after independence. Additionally he recorded that the Cahinnio used deer hide for pouches and bearskins for rugs. The Canadian Guards wore a white-over-red plume on the left side of their bearskins.