Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . t similarity ; theirlimbs, bodies and faces, being in every part covered, either with black, red,or while paint. Each one of these strange characters had also a lock ofbuffalos hair tied around his ancles—in his right hand a rattle, and a slen-der white rod or staff, six feet long, in the other; and carried on his back,
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . t similarity ; theirlimbs, bodies and faces, being in every part covered, either with black, red,or while paint. Each one of these strange characters had also a lock ofbuffalos hair tied around his ancles—in his right hand a rattle, and a slen-der white rod or staff, six feet long, in the other; and carried on his back,a bunch of green willow boughs about the usual size of a bundle of eight men, being divided into four pairs, took their positions on thefour different sides of the curb or big canoe, representing thereby the fourcardinal points; and between each group of them, with the back turned tothe big canoe, was another figure, engaged in the same dance, keeping stepwith them, with a similar staff or wand in one hand and a rattle in the other,and (being four in number) answering again to the four cardinal points. Thebodies of these four young men were chiefly naked, with no other dress uponthem than a beautiful kelt (or quartz-quaw), around the waist, made of eagles. ^^£:^ j -^^1- v^^~ ^^-^-^ 1,^5-^
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