Some Indian Ways 483 



The moose, he said, always lies down on a wound to get 

 it next the earth, but thereby drives the arrow home. 



Caribou rawhide, he claims, gets tighter when wet; 

 and hornbeam practically 

 never decays or loses its 

 power with age. 



The arrow he showed 

 me was without feathers 

 and had a stone head. 

 The notch was very slight, CSjH 

 showing that the pinch vv,, ^^ 



'-' '^ ^^Ji Drawn from life, 



grip was neCeSSarV. It # By Thunder's arrow grip 



. "^ # 14 Dec, 1900, Boston. 



was 32 inches long, but the / This manner he said was 



-P, , , , a general among his people 



renObSCOtS made them up V formerly, but of late they 



, . use the new (secondary) style. 



to 34 and 36 mches, usu- 

 ally with feathers. The grip by which he pulled was the 

 MongoHan, as in the sketch. 



That, he said, used to be the only one in use among his 

 tribe, but recently they had used the grip known as the 

 Secondary. 



SCALPS 



In some tribes each brave wears a long tuft of black horse- 

 hair that answers as his scalp. The skin of this should be 

 about one and a half inches across; it is furnished with a 

 cord loop; the hair is as long as possible. This scalp is 

 presented to the brave on entering the tribe. After he has 

 promised obedience and allegiance and signed the roll the 

 medicine man gives it to him, saying: 



"This is your scalp. Treasure this as your honor. You 

 may lose it without absolute disgrace, but not without some 

 humiliation. " 



He can lose it only in an important competition, approved 

 by the council, in which he stakes his scalp against that of 



