BoniKK.i TROPHIES AND KELICS. 485 



of wood, hide, nails of dead people, flaws of animals, and beaks of 

 birds.&quot; Stanley saw them displayed before King Mtesa. 



&quot;Some of the women in Gippsland wear round the neck linnian hands, 

 which, Mr. Hull says, were beautifully prepared. He moreover informs 

 me that they sometimes wear the parts of which the Lingam and 

 Priapus were the emblems.&quot;- The (iippsland people keep the relics 

 of the departed. They will cut off the hands to keep as a remembrance, 

 and these they will attach to the. string that is tied round the neek.&quot; :! 



Smyth also relates that the women of some of the Australian tribes 

 preserve the hands of some defunct member of the tribe that of 

 some friend of the woman s, or perhaps one belonging to a former hus 

 band. This she keeps as the only remembrance of one she once loved; 

 and, though years may have passed, even now, w!_cn she has nothing 

 else to do, she will sit and moan over this relic, of humanity. Some 

 times a mother will carry about with her the remains of a beloved child, 

 whose death she mourns.&quot; The Australians also use the skulls of their 

 &quot;nearest and dearest relatives&quot; for drinking vessels; thus, a daughter 

 would use her mother s skull, etc. 6 



&quot;One of the most extraordinary of their laws is. that a widow, for 

 every husband she marries after the tirst, is obliged to cut off a. joint of 

 a linger, which she presents to her husband on the wedding day, 

 beginning at one of the little fingers.&quot; 1 



In the Army and Navy Journal, New York, June 23, 1888, is men 

 tioned a battle between the Crow of Montana and the Piegan, in which 

 the former obtained some of the hands and feet of dead warriors of the 

 first-named tribe and used them in their dances. 



Gatlin shows that the young Sioux warriors, after going through the 

 ordeal of the sun dance, placed the little finger of the left hand on the 

 skull of a sacred buffalo and had it chopped off. 7 



&quot;The sacrifices [of American Indians] at the fasts at puberty some 

 times consist of finger joints.&quot;&quot; 



In Dodge s Wild Indians is represented (PL vi, 13) a Cheyenne neck 

 lace of the bones of the first joint of the human fingers, stripped of skin 

 and fiesh. I have never seen or heard of anything of the kind, although 

 I have served with the Cheyenne a great deal and have spoken about 

 their customs. My necklace is of human fingers mummified, not of 

 bones. 



Fanny Kelly says of a Sioux chief: &quot;He showed me a puzzle or 

 game he had made from the finger bones of some of the victims that 



1 Stanley. Through the Dark Continent, vol. 1. p. :!27. 



2 Miles, Demigods and l);enioniii, in Jour. Kthlml. Soc.. London, vol. 3, p. 2X, l* r &amp;gt;4. 



3 Smyth. Aborigines of Victoria, vol. 1. |i. 110. 

 Ibid.. ],. 131. 



Ibid., p. 348. 



6 Peter Kolben. speaking ol the Hottentots, in Knn\. vol. 2. p. :W4. 



O-kee-pa, pp. 28-29. 



*Vrazer. Totemism. PMinlmrgh. 1KH7. pp. 54. &quot;&amp;gt;r&amp;gt;: after Maximilian. 



