68 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOILE 63 
three implements used in tattooing. Each of these is made ot 
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 quills of the pelican. This 
Fic. 65.—Three implements used in 
Osage tattooing. Photograph by 
DeLancey Gill. 
bird is referred to in one of the dream rituals as, \lon-thin-the-don- 
ts'a-ge, He-who-becomes-very-old-while-yet-going. In certain pas- 
sages of the ritual it is intimated that these implements were origi- 
nally made of the wing bone of this bird and were used for doctoring 
as well as for tattooing. 
