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Small roach head dress (PI. XXXI, A), the hair dyed red and black, to the front of which is attached part of the scalp of the pileated woodpecker.
Eagle feather, loosely hung in a bone tube, probably used with the preceding. An ivory-bill woodpecker’s scalp was attached to the tube.
Scalp lock amulet, consisting of four black feathers (origin unknown), an eagle wing feather, a bit of the downy skin of a young swan and a medicine packet.
Single eagle feather, bearing medicine packet, probably a scalp lock amulet.
Parts of three quilled sticks used as ornaments for feath- ers, probably once used on the hawk skin head band or the eagle feathers.
Tuft of buffalo hair, the only relic of the buffalo in the bundle.
Pair of woven bead garters (PI. XXXVI, C), the most archaic I have seen. The beads are the large white and blue variety, brought by the early “pony traders,” woven on a native yam, probably buffalo wool. The more perfect of the garters meas- ures 11" long by 2f" wide, but how much longer the yam may have extended would be hard to tell, as it is badly broken and frayed. It seems, however, to have been woven on for about an inch beyond the bead work at both ends, beyond which it evidently hung loose as a kind of fringe, like the woven bead garters made by different tribes to-day. The design consists of three hour-glass shaped figures, outlined with a double row of white beads on a blue ground and connected by two rows of white beads with a blue row between running down the center of each garter.
Steel lance head (PI. XXXVI, F) Ilf" long and nearly 2" wide at the base.
Two fawn skin covers for the amulets.
Package of Vermillion done up in a page of the Congres- sional Globe, dated December 6, 1836.
Package of cedar leaves.
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Metal salt shaker containing a small stone.
Piece of dried flesh.
Fifteen packages of roots.
Three loose pieces of root.
Another of the late Benan'akw’s bundles, bought from Albert Moore, is said to belong to the “Bloody Thigh” class like those purchased from Co'kwiwa, so called because they are exempted from the taboo forbidding a menstruating woman to touch or even approach a sacred bundle. The contents, however, are different. It is:
Bundle 2/8593.
Size closed, 20§" x 7 \" . Outer cover of buckskin, fairly well preserved: inner cover a native rush mat, 32" x 20".
The use of mats as bundle covers is rare among the Sac and Fox, although common enough among the Iowa and other tribes. Ties of buffalo hide and rope of coarse fibre, apparently native. Three war whistles were thrust beneath these ties, and to the central tie was attached a bag of Indian tobacco.
Contents. — Buckskin war apron (PI. XXXV, B), measuring 20” from side to side, and 9” from top to bottom. It is doubt- less somewhat shrunken. At each end the lower edge is pro- tracted into a triangular point about 3" long, at whose apex is attached a bunch of hawk feathers and a deer hair tassel dyed red. The whole lower edge is sparsely fringed, each strand wrapped in red and yellow quills and terminating in a metal jingler, as a rule, of copper. The upper edge is hemmed and terminates at each end in a buckskin string for encircling the waist. At each end also hang two 10" strands of buckskin wrapped in porcupine quills dyed red and yellow, and terminating in a jingler of brass or copper with a red deer hair tassel. A similar pair of quilled strands hangs from the middle of the upper edge, making six in all. One side of the apron is badly stained, apparently with blood.
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