M. R. HARRINGTON — SACRED BUNDLES OF THE SAC AND FOX INDIANS. 243

Metal box with engraved top and bottom, containing a bottle wrapped in a rag, labeled, “Red Oxide of Mercury. W. H. Schieffelin & Co., New York.”
Package of finely divided mineral substance of yellow color.
Leather dice box (white man’s manufacture), containing in the bottom a buckskin package of red paint mixed with herbs — the magic paint mentioned above — in which was a pair of trade earrings. Being imbued with the magic of the paint, these were probably worn as amulets by gamblers. Then came a package of ash-like powder in a red calico sack covered with a rag of blue calico; an herb mixture done up in two white rags — the stuff that is chewed and blown upon the body, hands and paraphernalia of the gambler; and finally, in the top of the dice box, a yellow powder wrapped in a Baptist tract against Sabbath breaking. This completes the outfit.
Hunting Bundles.
Bundle 2/8446.
From Pia mic kwi, a woman of the Fox band at Tama, Iowa, was obtained a bundle that had belonged to her hus- band, now dead. She said she knew no details concerning it — only that he had used it to help him in his hunting, and that it is called Ci ca wus kw’. Examination of the contents, however, shows at least one additional use of which she was perhaps ignorant.
The outer cover is a very well made but dilapidated woven sack of native fibre strings, apparently Indian hemp, inter- woven with dark brown buffalo wool yam in geometric pat- terns. Red yam was introduced at the ends, but it is difficult to see whether this is light-colored buffalo wool dyed red, or ravelings from some woolen fabric.
Contents. — Strip of red trade cloth enclosing two weasel skins, one brown, one white. The brown one held a little
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paper package of fine black roots and two gun flints, appar- ently of English material and make, wrapped in cloth; while the white skin enclosed a package of parchment-like skin con- taining a bit of fossil bone about 1" long, resting in a bed of dried flowers and roots.
Printed cloth sack, containing three little packages of birch bark, two of roots, one empty; some cedar leaves wrapped in two layers of buckskin; a cloth package of herb mixture, bits of fossil bone and mica; buckskin package containing roots; another, red paint mixed with herbs; three pieces of fossil wood and a cloth package of ground herbs. A very old bit of paper enfolding a mixture of herbs bore the line, “Manny man of manny mind,” written fourteen times, the writing growing smaller with every repetition. A buckskin package of mixed herbs and mica wrapped in the red-crested skin of a young ivory-bill woodpecker’s head completed the contents of the cloth sack. All the objects within it were imbedded in down dyed red.
A little sack of red cloth bearing a roughly embroidered wolf figure in green yam, containing a buckskin package in which were a package of roots and another of ground herbs.
Triangular piece of very old and very coarse red trade cloth wrapped about a faded calico bundle of porcupine quills and roots, imbedded in finely pounded herbs and mica.
Rounded bundle of plaid cotton fabric, containing a large brass thimble, wrapped in three bits of cloth, one red, one blue, one figured. In it was concealed a little magic red paint in a packet of buckskin, tied first with human hair which was concealed by another tie, a long buckskin string, wound about over it. The whole was folded in faded purple ribbon. Another similar but smaller packet was also in the thimble, filled with ground herbs and mica, but this had no human hair, being merely tied to the end of an 8" buckskin string. In one comer of the outer cloth wrapping were knotted a few roots.
Three packages tied together, one covered with soft tanned
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