182 THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 
This was done by perforating the pipe of the 
quill in two places, and running two cords 
through the holes, and then winding around the 
quills and the cord fine thread to fasten each 
quill in the place designed for it. These cords 
extended some length beyond the quills on each 
side, so that on placing the feathers erect the 
cords could be tied together at the back of the 
head. This would enable the wearer to present 
a beautiful display of feathers standing erect, 
and extending a distance above the head and 
entirely surrounding it. These were most splen- 
did head-dresses, and would be a magnificent 
ornament to the head of a female at the present 
day. Several hundred strings of beads; these 
consisted of very hard, brown seed, smaller than 
hemp-seed, in each of which a small hole had 
been made, and through the whole a small three- 
corded thread, similar in appearance and texture 
to seine twine; these were tied up in bunches, 
as a merchant ties up coral-beads when he ex- 
poses them for sale. The red hoofs of fawns 
on a string supposed to be worn around the neck 
as a necklace. ‘These hoofs were about twenty 
in number, and may have been emblematic of 
innocence. The claw of an eagle, with a hole 
made in it, through which a cord was passed, so 
