. Bulletin. Ethnology. DILL. 30] blp:wmouths—boalkea 155 3, 1895; Holmes in 13th Rep. B. A. E., 1896; Matthews (1) in 3d Eep. B. A. E., 1884, (2) Navaho Legends, 1897; Pepper in Everybody's Mag., Jan. 1902; Stephen in Am. Anthrop., vi, no. 4, 1893; Voth in Am. Anthrop., ii, no. 2, 1900. See Adornment, Cloihmg, Di^es and Pigments, Receptacles, Wearing, (o. t. m. w. h. ) Blewmouths. Mentioned in a Georgia tract of 1740 (Force Tracts, i, 3, 1836) ap- parently as a tribe av. of the Choctaw. "According to the French Indians [Choc- taw] there is a large city where a blue- lipped people live, of
. Bulletin. Ethnology. DILL. 30] blp:wmouths—boalkea 155 3, 1895; Holmes in 13th Rep. B. A. E., 1896; Matthews (1) in 3d Eep. B. A. E., 1884, (2) Navaho Legends, 1897; Pepper in Everybody's Mag., Jan. 1902; Stephen in Am. Anthrop., vi, no. 4, 1893; Voth in Am. Anthrop., ii, no. 2, 1900. See Adornment, Cloihmg, Di^es and Pigments, Receptacles, Wearing, (o. t. m. w. h. ) Blewmouths. Mentioned in a Georgia tract of 1740 (Force Tracts, i, 3, 1836) ap- parently as a tribe av. of the Choctaw. "According to the French Indians [Choc- taw] there is a large city where a blue- lipped people live, of whom they have often heard it said that if any one tries to kill them he becomes insane" (Brinton, Nat. Leg. Chahta-Muskokee Tribes, 10, 1870). Nothing further is known of them. Bloody Knife. A famous Arikara war- rior and chief, who was long in the Gov- ernment service. His father was a Hunk- papa Sioux and his mother an Arikara. He was born on the Hunkpapa res., N. Dak., but as he approached manhood his mother determined to return to her people and he accompanied her. Prior to the building of the Northern Pacific R. R. the mail for Ft Stevenson, N. Dak., and other Missouri r. points, was carried overland from Ft Totten. The high country e. of the Missouri was at that time a hunting ground for hostile Sioux who had been driven w. from Minnesota after the massacre of 1862, and so often were the mail carriers on this route killed that it became diflicult to find anyone to carry the mails. Bloody Knife under- took the task, and traversing the country with Indian caution almost always got the mail through on time. Soon after the establishment of Ft Abraham Lin- coln, N. Dak., a number of Arikara scouts were engaged for service at the post, and of these Bloody Knife was the chief. He was with Gen. Stanley on the Yellow- stone expedition of 1873 and took part in the fighting of that trip; he also accom- panied Custer to the Black-hills in 1874, and was one of the scouts with
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