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in use among the whites, show the unity of intellect among races the 

 most widely separated. A needle case, porcupine quills, and bead orna- 

 ments, together with a corn bag, illustrating female occupation, are 

 from Hospital Steward J. E. Jones. From the same Territory, Dr. J, 

 P. Kimball, United States Army, has contributed a large number of 

 objects, such as the bow, quiver and arrows of the Assiniboines ; 

 also of the Sioux, Mandans, and Arickarees; scalpknife, sheath, 

 and scalp, of Yankton 5 war club, bonnet, shirt, and leggings, .drum, 

 and other fighting equipments ; a fleshing knife for dressing skins, a 

 pemmican mallet, wooden cups, dishes, ladles, spoons, pipe and stems, 

 a peace pipe of the Blackfoot Indians, two pairs of ornamental mocca- 

 sins, and an ornamented dance rattle. From Fort Wadsworth, Dr. A. 

 J. Comfort, United States Army, has sent a bow, case, quiver and ar- 

 rows; a collar made of bears' claws; an ornamented sheath for knife; 

 stone hammer; stone spear and arrow-heads; several riding Avhips; 

 the instruments used in games of ball ; a perforated horn implement 

 from a mound ; two red stone pipes with carved stems ; three ornamented 

 pouches of beaver and other skins ; a stone palm thimble for sewing 

 with a large needle ; a worked quilt, a bunch of perfumed dried grass, 

 scalp feathers, and a gourd dance rattle, which closes the list. From 

 the Upper Sioux, Dr. James F. Boughter, at Fort Dakota, has obtained 

 for the Institution from the Sioux a bow, with case and arrows, leggings, 

 embroidered with beads ; saddle cloths handsomely ornamented, riding 

 whips, war feathers, knife sheath, moccasins, ear rings, &c., the trap- 

 pings of the warrior. Dr. A. B. Campbell, United States Army, contri- 

 butes from the Yanktons a handsome necklace of the claws of the grizzly 

 bear ; a smoking pipe ; war club armed with knives ; stone war mace ; 

 stone hammer or mallet; a mortar and pestle, the former made of a stout 

 piece of buffalo hide gathered at the corners ; with the usual bow and 

 arrows of this tribe, and three arrows of the Kaw Indians. From the 

 vicinity of Fort Eandall, Dr. G. P. Hardenburgh has obtained for us 

 another head dress of buffalo skin with the hair on, and surmounted by 

 the horns, with a broad pendant of skin furred and feathered to hang 

 down the neck ; also a rubbing stone for dressing skins, and a horn 

 spoon. 



Dr. Gardner, United States Ai^my, has forwarded fi*om the same Terri- 

 tory a Chippewa bow, quiver and arrows, saddle, drum and sticks, a 

 Sissiton i)ipe stick, medicine bag, bow, and a heavy scraper of bone, used 

 in dressing skins. Dr. W. H. Forwood, United States Army, has contri- 

 buted a bow, bow case, quiver and arrows of the Cheyennes, also arrows 

 from the Sioux ; Dr. H. G. Schell, United States Army, from near Fort 

 Laramie, has sent a collection consisting of the bow, bow case, quiver 

 and arrows of the Ogalalla band of Sioux ; Dr. C. S. De Graw, United 

 States Army, a bow and quiver of the Kiowas ; Dr. A. MuUer, United 

 States Army, a hickory war bow of the Yanktons and Sissitons. From 

 the same tribes a battle ax and pouch has been i^resented by F. B. 



