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and decorated with a slender stick wrapped in colored porcu- pine quills and tipped with deer hair dyed red; back of these are eagle down feathers dyed red, and on each side a black ostrich plume, of course obtained from the whites. No medi- cine packets were seen; but of course there may be some folded away within the head band.
Dew-claw of a buffalo, notched on the edges and pro- vided with a perforation through which runs a fibre string. This may have been an amulet or part of a hoof rattle.
Two pieces of buffalo skin from which the hair is now missing, possibly once parts of amulets for the scalp lock.
Bunch of felted buffalo wool.
Crude, much worn, bent drumstick of wood (PI. XXIX, B)\
Trade knife stamped “W. Dunn” on the blade.
Nine bits of cane, material for whistle reeds, in various stages of manufacture.
Claw of lynx.
Two bits of soft greenish stone.
Bag made of the entire skin of a bear cub, only about 20' long, apparently for native tobacco. The opening was just below the throat, its edges bound with bird quills dyed yellow and dark red. A fawn skin cover, now much dilapi- dated, had been provided for this object.
Cloth bag, about 1 " x 5', packed full of soft white down. It had been covered with buckskin, then a layer of bladder, and then another layer of buckskin ; but only parts of these outer coverings remain.
Two smaller sacks of white down, to one of which is tied a buckskin packet of the same.
Small round box of wood, obtained from the whites, con- taining herb mixture.
Metal snuff-box, containing the following buckskin pack- ages: One with piece of obsidian, packed in red down; one of roots and red down; one of herb mixture, ground; one of ground herbs and loose fur (otter?); one of mica. All these packages as they lay in the box were imbedded in down dyed red.
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Piece of an old painted buckskin garment, containing roots. This was first thought to be the sleeve of a shirt, but more careful inspection seems to show that it is part of a fringed legging. The painting consists of red horizontal stripes about f" apart, encircling the leg. Between the upper stripes are black parallel lines, the alternate ones terminating in arrowheads pointing inward.
Empty buckskin pouch of unusual interest (PI. XXXVI, G), the main part of which measures 2\" x 3". To the bottom is attached an ornament of porcupine quill work in the rare netted technique, 2\" x 3§", in red, black and yellow; the design consisting of three black rectangles, with yellow cen- ters, horizontal on a red ground. About the mouth of the pouch are four triangular points of skin, 3" long, and two on each side. These are fringed and the fringes wrapped in quills. In considering these quilled objects, one must remember that such work has not been done among the Sac and Fox for many years, and home-made quilled articles are now never seen in common use, although modem Cheyenne quill work is occa- sionally observed.
Another unusual buckskin pouch (PI. XXXVI, H) meas- ured 6|" x 4 Y • This also had four triangular points, two on each side of the mouth, each 4" long and decorated with a short quill-wrapped fringe, the quills dyed yellow. At their apices were three metal jinglers with tassels of deer hair dyed yellow, attached to the fringe, at these points wrapped in red and yellow quills instead of the plain yellow. At each end of the pouch hung four slender strands of buckskin, wrapped with alternate red and yellow quills, 4" long; and between the points on both sides were two similar strands. All the strands had once been provided with metal jinglers and yellow tassels. The pouch contains a buckskin package enclosing a piece of fossil bone (PI. XXXVI, I) packed in red down, two bits of gypsum crystals, three packages of herb mixture and a small cloth sack, empty.
Woven sack, largely of buffalo wool yam, 71" x 5J", in
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