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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 78 



bird dancer, and another wind instrument the sound of which was 

 said to " come through the seams " where the halves of the wooden 

 tube were joined together. An interesting specimen is a " baby- 

 carrier " woven of cedar bark and used only during the first four 

 days of a child's life. In this carrier is placed a doll with pads of 

 cedar bark around its face as formerly used to flatten the forehead 

 and shape the cheeks and chin. A very old wooden cradle used for 

 infants above the age of four days was also obtained. 



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t'lG. 241. — Mrs. Sophie Wilson. (Photograph by 

 Miss Densmore.) 



The collecting of plants comprised 58 pressed specimens with de- 

 scriptions of their economic uses. A majority of these were medicinal, 

 including the entire set of remedies inherited by Mrs. Parker (fig. 239) . 

 Her children do not regard the old ways and this knowledge of plants 

 would have perished with her. 



The study of general customs included a detailed account of the 

 making of the native canoe (dug-out), the preparation of native dyes, 

 and a description of the whale hunt and its weapons, valuable infor- 

 mation on the latter subject being given by Albert Irving (fig. 240). 



