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that it could be worn pendant from the neck. 
The jaw of a bear, designed to be worn in the 
same manner as the eagle’s claw, and supplied 
with a cord to suspend it around the neck. Two 
rattlesnake-skins; one of these had fourteen rat- 
tles; these skins were neatly folded up. Some 
vegetable colors done up in leaves. <A small 
bunch of deer sinews, resembling catgut in ap- 
pearance. Several bunches of thread and twine, 
two and three-threaded, some of which were 
nearly white. Seven needles, some of which 
were of horn and some of bone; they were 
smooth, and appeared to have been much used. 
These needles had each a knob or whorl on the 
top, and at the other end were brought to a 
point like a large sail-needle. They had no 
eyelets to receive a thread. The top of one of 
these needles was handsomely scolloped. A 
hand-piece made of deer-skin, with a hole 
through it for the thumb, and designed proba- 
bly to protect the hand in the use of the needle, 
the same as thimbles are now used. Two whis- 
tles, about eight inches long, made of cane, with 
a joint about one-third the length; over the 
joint is an opening extending to each side of the 
tube of the whistle; these openings were about 
three-quarters of an inch long and an inch wide, 
