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animals in various colours, blue, 

 green, white, black, and the door 

 was closed with a beautiful grizzly 

 bear skin of which Nirnrod secured 

 a photograph together with a copper- 

 coloured baby standing in front. 

 The little fellow could not have been 

 more than four years old; he wore 

 nothing but a little breech-cloth, a 

 pair of moccasins, a necklace of elk's 

 teeth and a feather in his hair, ar- 

 rayed for the dance. When he saw 

 that Nimrod was going to photo- 

 graph him, he ran to fetch a big 

 stick, slipped a rag of a garment over 

 his head and placed himself in front 

 of the teepee, the big bear skin hang- 

 ing behind him, his right hand grasp- 

 ing the stick, up high little body as 

 straight as an arrow, deliberately 

 posing most unusual, as the belief 

 is current among Indians that some 

 virtue goes out of them into the 

 pictured resemblance. 



When released he scrambled on to 

 a pony and joined a dozen or more 

 Indian children who were dashing 

 around on ponies trying to lasso 

 each other. Many of the ponies car- 

 ried double, one 'buckskin' had 



