THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 18B 



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, 



