A VOYAGE AROUND THE ROOM 



tucky casting reels, each beautiful and delicate as 

 a watch. There are all sorts of casting reels on sale 

 today, from five dollars up. You paid twenty dol- 

 lars for your old Kentucky reel and thought it too 

 much, but it is worth fifty today. In the same way 

 some of your old-fashioned rifles will run into 

 value, and perhaps also your fishing rods as well. 

 Today many of the articles of savage use, such as 

 the old war shields, war shirts, buffalo bows, primi- 

 tive examples of bead work, etc., are worth a great 

 deal of money. We have factories for making 

 antique furniture, and there are factories which 

 make Indian articles for sale at summer and winter 

 resorts frightful stuff it is, which ought to be 

 barred by law but of the ancient sporting gear of 

 the native tribes the supply now is very limited. 

 There are but few of the old Indian dresses, made 

 of white sheep leather, and ornamented each with 

 two or three hundred elk teeth. There is a legend 

 that among the Blackfeet a vandal once dug up 

 some of the buried belles of early days for the sake 

 of the elk teeth which still remained on their for- 

 gotten finery. He did quite a business in elk teeth 

 in this way. 



Here, under glass and well cared for, is an article 

 the use of which must be explained. It is a saddle 

 from the Pawnees, almost a hundred years old, 



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