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household fire is the family altar, which is only a patch of ashes where- 
offerings of incense are sprinkled at certain times upon live coals from 
the fire. At the left of the altar may be seen the usual tobacco board 
and pipe, the sign of hospitality. At the right and left are the beds, 
which are made of and covered with buffalo hides. At the head of each 
bed is the back rest, suspended to the tripods of which are the “ medicine”’ 
bags containing charms for use on ceremonial occasions. Among 
other articles in the lodge are household utensils, a man’s saddle and 
parfléche bags for storing pemmican. 
The background of the Otter lodge is formed by another Blackfoot 
lodge-cover, which was obtained by Dr. George Bird Grinnell. Both 
lodge-covers are made from cowskin which has been tanned and _pre- 
pared in the usual Blackfoot manner, as illustrated and described in the 
exhibits on the opposite side of the hall. 
HEAD OF THE ATLANTIC FIN BACK WHALE 
North Hall, No. 308 of the Third Floor 
THE MUSEUM WHALES. 
MPOR'TVAN'T additions have been made recently to the 
exhibition series of Cetaceans through means provided 
by George 5. Bowdoin, Esq. Among these are the 
skeletons of three species of Whale which have been 
mounted in the East Mammal Hall of the gallery floor 
(Hall No. 306); a life-size model of the Atlantic Sulphur-bottom Whale 
