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other is a more modern dress made of blanketing, but it is decorated 
with imitation elk teeth cut by the Indians from elk antler. ‘These are so 
well carved and polished as to deceive any but the most experienced 
observer. 
In the material obtained from the Blackfoot there is a group of 
specimens from a noted medicine man known as “Pretty Antelope.” 
This comprises his costume consisting of an ermine headdress with 
beaded horns, shirt and leggings beautifully beaded and decorated with 
dozens of ermine skins in the form of a fringe, with belt and moccasits 
to match, and his tomahawk, lance, tobacco bag, scalp ornaments, 
rattles, talisman, medicine pipe and all the paraphernalia of a shaman. 
This makes one of the most complete personal outfits in the Museum. 
Among the costumes from other tribes there are several unusual or 
particularly significant examples. A splendid Comanche suit includes 
leggings which have enormous flaps trailing on the ground more than 
twenty inches. Several pairs of Apache leggings have moccasins at- 
tached which show the big toe protector. A Pawnee shirt is decorated 
with porcupine quills in a manner suggesting a more northerly region. 
The Apache, Comanche and Kiowa objects show the peculiar ideas of 
dress of these people, such as lack of beads and presence of painted 
designs in the ornamentation. A magnificent eagle-feather war bonnet 
has a double trailer which dragged on the ground after the wearer. A 
very rare wig made of buffalo hair with long tips of horse hair of a lighter 
color has the hair strands ornamented and held together by daubs of red 
paint at intervals of about an inch. 
The art work of the Indians is represented by moccasins, vests, 
charms, awl cases, bags, saddle blankets and game bags, carriers and 
parts of horse accoutrements and pipe and fire bags decorated in beads 
and quills. Smokers will be interested in the collection of catiinite pipes. 
The stone for the bowis of these pipes was obtained at the famous quarry 
at Pipestone, Minnesota, which is stiil in the possession of the Indians, 
who have kept, with the sanction of the Government, the exclusive right 
of quarrying this peculiar stone. ‘The pipes in the collection, many of 
them with decorated stems and bowls, represent the handiwork of 
practically all the larger Piains tribes and some of those of the Eastern 
Woodlands. 
The Indians of the Southwest have contributed to the coilection 
many curiously wrought objects in silver and other metals, such as 
