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admitted t«» this society, sit in front of the chiefs. Two of the warriors 

 carry a spear about an inch and a half wide. Between its ends 

 is stretched a string, which gives the spear the form of a bow. Several 

 kinds of feathers hang from the spear, and it has a sharp point. See 

 Plate IX. Fig. i. The other warriors carry straight spears. Each 

 warrior has two eagle feathers stuck vertically in his scalplock, and 

 carries a bow and arrows. All members of the society dress alike. 

 Their bodies and upper parts of their arms and legs are painted yellow, 

 while the lower arms and legs are painted black. On the breast of 

 each warrior, suspended by means of a string about the neck, is a 

 crescent-shaped, black-painted piece of hide. The two eagle feathers 

 in the hair are always worn and the spear is always carried in their 

 hand when they are not abroad. When dancing these warriors jump 

 up and down rapidly, keeping time to the rapid and ever-increasing 

 time of the music. The four maidens, who are daughters of chiefs, 

 decorate their dress with elk teeth. Their faces are painted yellow 

 and they wear two eagle feathers upright in their hair. 



In the past the warriors of this society had their hair roached over 

 the top from front to back to represent a scalplock, the sides of the 

 head being* shorn of hair. All members of the other societies wore 

 their hair long. The coyote hide is the emblem of this society, for 

 in a similar skin the great Prophet brought the medicine-arrows to the 

 tribe. The coyote was the animal that the great Spirit sent to wander 

 over the earth, and he was one of the animals that, in early times, 

 talked to men. 



10.— THE DOG-MEN WARRIORS. 



The Dog-Men society, termed by the white men "Dog-Soldier" 

 society, is the largest society among the Cheyenne. It is made up of 

 males of fifteen years and more, and numbers one-half of the males of 

 the entire Cheyenne tribe. This society once controlled the whole 

 tribe. Its members were raiders, and formerly they roamed over the 

 plains between the Missouri and the Arkansas rivers with the upper 

 Platte River in Nebraska as their headquarters. The society has one 

 chief and seven assistants, and several hundred warriors. Of 

 these the four bravest are chosen to protect the society and the 

 tribe from the raids of the enemy. These four braves wear over their 

 left shoulder and trailing down their backs to the ground, a piece of 

 skin twelve inches wide and eight feet long, decorated with porcu- 

 pine quills and eagle feathers. The quill work of two of these 

 streamers is in bright colors with rows of eagle feathers hanging over 



