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McGnire. Brevet Brigadier General Crane Las contributed a pair of 

 moccasins and a pipe of the chief Little Bear; Dr. A. MuUer sends from 

 Fort Ridg-ely arrows used by the Yankton s, Sissitons, and Upper and 

 Lower Sioux. Mr. W. L. Toole, from the same Territory, has furnished 

 a handsome red stone pipe, stone ax, chisel, and a stone war club or 

 casse-tete. 



Upper Missouri River. — From this region. Captain Little, United States 

 Army", has contributed a slab of sandstone, upqp which the impression of 

 t wo human feet are rudely carved. Mr. Leopold Biddle, a stone chisel ; 

 and Dr. F. V. Hayden, a very perfectly preserved soapstoue vessel, frag- 

 ments of pottery, arrow-heads, and other objects from the site of an an- 

 cient Pawnee village. 



Nebraslca.—Fvova N'ebraska, Dr. S. M. Horton, United States Army, has 

 furnished several important and interesting articles from the Ogalalla 

 band of the Sioux. Among these are a buffalo robe, as prepared by the 

 Cheyennes ; a saddle from the Crow Indians : a Sioux war club ; a 

 pouch, knife and sheath, and a bunch of feathers, used in taking 

 scalps ; specimens of arrows of the Crows, Sioux, Cheyennes, and other 

 tribes; several pairs of moccasins, and a skin prepared for making 

 others; a gun case of Sioux construction ; a riding whip; a lariat; pro- 

 vision case of tanned buffalo hide ; tanned skins of the Rocky Mountain 

 sheep and of the elk, and smaller articles consisting of several stone pipes 

 from the Arapahoes, a paint bag and a comb, used by the Crow In- 

 dians, the latter made of the stiff appendages on the tail of a porcupine. 



Kansas.— Evom the vicinity of Walnut Creek in this State, we have 

 received through Dr. G. M. Sternberg, United States Army, the burial 

 case and its appendages of a male Cheyenne child about three years of 

 age. The wrappings enveloping the body, and the articles of dress, or- 

 nament, or daily use which accompanied it, form the most curious and 

 interesting assemblage of objects of the kind we have ever received. 

 The burial case is made of long flexible withes of willow, stripped of the 

 bark, and lashed together somewhat in basket fashion, built up from an 

 oval base, five feet in the longer and three feet in the shorter diameter, 

 the sides and top being arched and rounded, rising about three and a 

 half feet from the base. An opening on one side is left for the intro- 

 duction of the corpse and a large number of articles of the greatest 

 value to the Indians. These articles consisted of seven highly-finished 

 and valuable buffalo robes ; six blankets, white, red and blue ; a hood, 

 ornamented with beads ; a cape ; several worsted scarfs ; belts, orna- 

 mented with beads and metal disks ; a leather belt, covered with metal 

 buttons ; apparently all the child's wardrobe, as jackets, underclotlies, 

 stockings, moccasins, fur cap, leather gloves ; together with a small tin 

 dish, beads, metal plates, ornaments of German silver, and others made of 

 the shells of the haliotis, which is not found nearer than the Pacific coast. 

 There were also several articles which can scarcely be recognized as the 

 property of so young a child, such as spur straps, tobacco pouches, hide 



