M. R. HARRINGTON — SACRED BUNDLES OP THE SAC AND POX INDIANS. 197

ently made in part if not entirely of dyed buffalo wool yam, and provided with a buckskin carrying thong. It contained:
White weasel skin amulet (A), worn on the neck. The skin is folded transversely and held fast in that position by a woven band a little over Y wide, which is apparently made of buffalo wool yam in black and yellow, with two parallel rows of large white beads. About the neck were hung a buck- skin packet of magic red paint, another of herbs and a few bits of root tied together. The nose, mouth and throat of the skin were painted red; the top of the head, green. The band for suspending the amulet from the neck, §" wide, seems to be made of buffalo wool yam dyed in sections, dark red alter- nating with natural brownish yellow. A larger packet of magic red paint mixed with herbs is tied to this band, also a very small fragment of a root, tied on with sinew.
A piece of beaver (?) skin with fur (B).
A piece of dried meat(?) (C).
Package of cedar leaves (E).
Part of a bladder or pericardium (buffalo?) (D).
Remains of a paper package of cedar leaves (E).
Three packages, each containing herbs and cedar leaves mixed (E).
Similar package containing a piece of root and cedar leaves (E).
Loose in the bundle were:
Small buffalo tail (G), the proximal end bent over to form a loop for the belt. The terminal tuft has been broken off, but fastened on again with a buckskin string.
Squirrel skin package (H) of magic red paint, tied with a woven band dyed red and yellow in alternate sections. The band is wide.
Two calico bags of cedar leaves (I, J).
A very unusual bundle was bought from Albert Moore, who said it had been the property of the late Bena'nakw', also a Sac and Fox. It is illustrated complete in PI. XXVII.
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198 UNIVERSITY MUSEUM — ANTHROPOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS VOL. IV.
Bundle 2/8737.
Size closed, 18" x 5§". Cover, of buckskin; ties, two, of buckskin and buffalo hide, beneath which, besides the usual cane whistle, was a flat case about 14" x 4", made by folding lengthwise a rectangular piece of thick buffalo hide. Within this was another case of somewhat smaller size, this time made of a folded piece of birch bark (A), the whole enclosing an eagle feather, decorated with a slender strip of wood wrapped in colored porcupine quills and further ornamented with tufts of hair and down dyed red. The proximal end of the feather is provided with a buckskin string, by which it could be attached to the hair.
Contents (PI. XXVII). — Inside the bundle proper, within a special buckskin sheath, was one of the most remarkable objects found in any of the bundles thus far examined, a belt of buf- falo hide (B) completely covered on one side with bird quill decoration, the other side bearing more simple work in bird quill and buffalo wool yam, the whole being If" wide and 29|" long. Most of the quills are dyed red or black, but some are left their natural white, giving three colors in all. They are laid side by side transversely of the belt, and are held in place by six parallel lines of sinew sewing which run through corresponding longitudinal slits in the material. Beginning at the left we have three black stripes and three white stripes, each three quills wide; then a section of red reaching nearly to the middle, in the center of which is a black block, out- lined in white, enclosing a white cross with a smaller black block in its center. Another similar cross balances this in the middle of the right side, while the middle of the belt itself is occupied by twenty-one stripes, most of them only two quills wide, eleven white, seven black and three red. At the right end are three white, two red and one black stripes. On the back, we have alternating blocks of yellow and black buf- falo wool yam, with bird quills appearing in some places. Tie straps of buckskin and buffalo hide are provided. From
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