BOI-KKK.] WAR TROPHIES. 483 



we find the whole arm, or in other cases only the nails. The Cheyenne 

 did not always restrict themselves to fingers; they generally made use 

 of the whole hand, or the arm of the slaughtered enemy. In a colored 

 picture drawn and painted by one of themselves I have a representa 

 tion of a seal]) dance, in which the squaws may be seen dressed in their 

 best, earring the arms of enemies elevated on high poles and lances. 

 There is no doubt in my mind that this custom of the Cheyenne of cut 

 ting off the arm or hand gave rise to their name in the sign language of 

 the &quot;Slashers,&quot; or -Wrist Cutters, 1 much as the corresponding tribal 

 peculiarity of the Dakota occasioned their name of the &quot;Coupe Gorge&quot; 

 or &quot;Throat Cutters.&quot; 



The necklace of human fingers is found among other tribes. A 

 necklace of four human fingers was seen by the members of the Lewis 

 and Clarke expedition among the Shoshoni at the headwaters of the 

 Columbia, in the early years of the present century. Early in the 

 spring of 1858 Henry Youle Hind refers to the allies of the Ojibwa on 

 Red River as having &quot;two fingers severed from the hands of the unfor 

 tunate Sioux.&quot; 1 In Eastman s &quot;Legends of the Sioux,&quot; we read of 

 &quot; Harpsthinah, one of the Sioux women, who wore as long as she could 

 endure it, a necklace made of the hands and feet of Chippewali chil 

 dren.&quot; 2 We read that in New Zealand, &quot;Several rows of human teeth, 

 drawn on a thread, hung on their breasts.&quot; 3 Capt. Cook speaks of 

 seeing fifteen human jaw bones attached to a semicircular board at 

 the end of a long house on the island of Tahiti. &quot;They appeared to be 

 fresh, and there was not one of them that wanted a single tooth;&quot; 4 and 

 ! also, &quot;the model of a canoe, about three feet long, to which were tied 

 eight human jaw bones; we had already learnt that these were tro 

 phies of war.&quot; 5 Capt. Byron, It. N., saw in the Society Islands, in 17(35, 

 a chief who &quot; had a string of human teeth about his waist, which was 

 probably a trophy of his military prowess.&quot; 6 



&quot; The wild Andamanese, who live only on the fruits of their forests and 

 on fish, so far revere their progenitors that they adorn their women 

 and children with necklaces and such like, formed out of the finger and 

 toe-nails of their ancestors.&quot; 7 



Bancroft says&quot; that the Californians did not generally scalp, but they 

 did cut off and keep the arms and legs of a slain enemy or, rather, the 

 hands and feet and head. They also had the habit of plucking out 

 and preserving the eyes. 



Kohl assures us that he has been informed that the Ojibwa will 

 frequently cut fingers, arms, and limbs from their enemies and preserve 



1 AwHinniboine and Saskatchewan Expedition, vol. 2, p. 123. 

 New York. 1849, pp. x, xxix, 47. 



3 Forster, Voyage Konntl the World, vol. 1. pp. 219, 519. 



4 Uawkeaworth. op. cit., vol. 2, p. 161. 

 8 Ibid., p. 257. 



Ibid., vol. 1, p. 113. 



Forking, Kivers of Life, vol. 1, pp. 541, 542. 



Nat. Races, vol. 1, p. 380. 



