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three implements used in tattooing. Each of these is made of 

 wood about the length of a pencil. To the lower end are attached 

 needles arranged in a straight row, and to the upper end are fastened 

 four small rattles made of the large wing (juills of the ])elican. This 



Fig. 65. — Three implements used in 

 Osage tattooing-. Photooraph l)v 

 DcT.anccv Cil!. 



l)ird is referred to in one of the dream rituals as, .\fon-thi;j-the-do;/- 

 ts"a-ge, He-who-becomes-verv-old-while-yet-going. In certain pas- 

 sages of the ritual it is intimated that these implements were origi- 

 nally made of the wing hone of this l)ir(l and were used for doctoring 

 as well as for tattooing. 



