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red, a medicine packet, four bits of root tied with a buckskin thong and a few strands of faded ribbon. On the lower side, attached to the thong intended for fastening the amulet to the wearer’s hair, was the remains of a tassel composed of a few down feathers and a tuft of buffalo hair bound together with ribbon and a buckskin thong which shows traces of hav- ing been wrapped with quills and still bears a medicine packet and a little brass bell. The second amulet was merely a bunch of buffalo hair to which was tied some reddened down feathers and faded yellow ribbons (PI. XXXI, C) ; while the third was a piece of buffalo tail bound fast to a strip of downy young swan’s skin 12j" long.
A buffalo horn, with the edges more or less rounded served, it is said, for a cup in which medicine was administered (PI. XXXVI, B).
A cane war whistle.
A fine curved drumstick, 13" long, painted red (P1.XXIX,C).
A coil of braided fibre rope or sennit about 12' long, both ends divided into four braided ornamental strands 8" long, said to be for -binding captives (PI. XXXVI, D).
Two deer skin covers, one for the quilled arm band, one for the best head band.
Buckskin thong bearing seven medicine packets, probably once part of a hawk skin head band.
Similar but smaller thong with six packets.
Two buckskin thongs, each with two bits of root knotted in.
Cloth package of cedar leaves.
Twenty-two packages of roots and herbs, one of them also containing:
One package of green paint.
Two packages of ground herb mixture.
One empty buckskin package.
Two tiny rolls of paper containing roots fastened together with sinew.
Eleven loose pieces of root.
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Another somewhat similar bundle from the same man, Victor Neal, was:
Bundle 2/6376.
Size closed, 18" x 6". Buckskin cover, new, the original having fallen to pieces. Three buckskin ties, the end ones connected by a carrying cord braided from native fibre. Be- neath the ties was thrust a war whistle.
Contents. — Two head bands, made in the usual way of the skins of large hawks, both in poor condition. The best pre- served skin as it lies measures 26" from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. About the neck is a piece of red cloth 3|" wide, bound with a cord made of hair, and a buckskin string to which seven little bags of medicine are attached, besides two bits of root on a separate string, two more tied together and a red down feather. Each wing is decorated with a slender, tapering flat stick, wrapped in colored por- cupine quills, lashed fast to it with sinew. These are about 9" long, and each has a tuft of hair, dyed red, fastened to base and tip. The skin is lined with bluish cloth.
The second head band is similar with the exception that there is a faded yellow ribbon on the neck of the hawk, that there are eight buckskin packets, one paper packet and one exposed bit of root on the neck thong, and that one of the wing ornaments is missing. This amulet is in very poor condition.
A tail and portions of the two wings of a similar hawk are also in the bundle.
Amulet for the scalp lock, made of a hawk wing to which has been fastened an eagle tail feather, a piece of red cotton cloth, and a bunch of red woolen cloth ravelings, together with a thong for attaching the amulet to the hair.
Three tail feathers, apparently those of a very large hawk.
Two buffalo tail amulets. One of these had apparently seen much use. About 4" of the proximal end has been bent over and fastened with a buckskin string in the usual way
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