. In the bosom of the Comanches;. hoursfor repasts, and had the habit of eating whenever theywere hungry. They did not eat any bread at all. Theylived in what is known as tepees or wigwams, which weremade out of buffalo hides, dressed and tanned after aprocess of their own. They would take ten or fifteenbuffalo skins after preparing them, and sew them to-gether so as to make one tepee. They used the sinew ofthe bufifalo in making thread and cord. This sinew wasfound in the back of the animal extending from the hipbones to the shoulder blades. It could be subdividedinto small strands like threa
. In the bosom of the Comanches;. hoursfor repasts, and had the habit of eating whenever theywere hungry. They did not eat any bread at all. Theylived in what is known as tepees or wigwams, which weremade out of buffalo hides, dressed and tanned after aprocess of their own. They would take ten or fifteenbuffalo skins after preparing them, and sew them to-gether so as to make one tepee. They used the sinew ofthe bufifalo in making thread and cord. This sinew wasfound in the back of the animal extending from the hipbones to the shoulder blades. It could be subdividedinto small strands like thread, and each strand of thesinew had ten times the strength of the thread of thesame size. They also made their bowstrings of the sinew,which strings were practically unbreakable. As beforestated, the prevailing custom was for the men to havewhatever number of wives or squaws they deemed neces-sary, which ordinarily amounted to two to six wives toeach man. The impression has obtained that the chief In the Bosom of the Comanches 131. Chief Quanah Parker and His Old Home 132 In the Bosom of the Comanches had special prerogatives as to the number of squaws hecould possess; but that is a mistake, as all the Indian menwere on the same footing and permitted to have what-ever number of wives they desired without respect torank. The women that were the wives or squaws of oneman all lived together and acknowledged the man astheirs in common. There were a great many more womenthan men, as many of the warriors were killed from timeto time in their raids and battles; and owing to the greaternumber of women a great latitude was extended to themen as to the number of wives or squaws they shoiildpossess. Each man and his squaws would occupy tepeesseparately from the others, but strange to say the squawswould devote the same attention to the children of otherwomen as they would their own. Only in rare instanceswas there ever any friction or discord between the squawsof the same or different hous
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