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tive to Crazy-head's other wife. Thereafter, if anyone required an adop- 

 tion lodge, he would apply to both of Crazy-head's wives. Having paid 

 for their initiation with the aid of their relatives, the two women were 

 entitled to choose medicines for themselves. However, Young-crane 

 felt that she knew nothing about the matter and accordingly had Wolf 

 select for her. Thus she obtained an otterskin sold to the writer in 1910, 

 a medicine blanket, a baxdseimbdpe (plant growing by the water, with 

 cigar-like top), an otterskin belt, and some buckskin bags with Tobacco 

 seed. She subsequently used the otterskin in the Tobacco dance, hold- 

 ing it by the neck while dancing. The Tobacco bags secured on this 

 occasion were of the large variety. 



At this point may be offered a few words on the Tobacco seed containers. They 

 belong to two quite different categories as to size, small pouches directly enclosing 

 the seed and the large bags borne on the back in the Tobacco processions. The little 

 pouches are frequently tied together in pairs (Fig. 2) and generally remain un- 

 decorated except that those containing the last harvest's seeds are painted red on the 

 outside. I bought one small pouch of aberrant type (50.1-3985), bottle-shaped and 

 decorated all over with rather large beads of white, black, and red color. 



The large bags, though varying in size, are all of the same order of magnitude and 

 are all supplied with carrying straps. They differ in material, rawhide being used as 

 well as tanned buckskin, elk and buffalo skin. Further, some are plain, others 

 decorated with a fringe, appendages, or painted designs. A few characteristic speci- 

 mens will be described. Fig. lid (50.1-3870) shows an elk (?) rawhide bag decorated 

 on both sides with a fringe terminating in dewclaws. The side exposed in the proces- 

 sion is ornamented with parallel vertical stripes in dark color alternating with rows 

 of small circles. These designs were interpreted to represent the Tobacco garden, 

 the circles being seeds, the bars the spaces between seed-rows. From the side nearer 

 the carrier's body there projects a small triangular flap. Along its edge there is 

 marked a triangle bisected by a perpendicular stripe, and each of the resulting com- 

 partments encloses two small circles. In Fig. lib (50.1-3984) is shown a bag of buffalo 

 calfskin dressed with the hair. It is fringed on the sides, and the surface visible 

 during the procession is decorated with nine small discs in beadwork, the four 

 corner ones being white with a blue periphery, the remainder blue with a white peri- 

 phery. Another specimen (Fig. lie, 50.1-3905) is fringed at the sides and has for 

 ornamentation four bands of beadwork, each composed of four rows of beads; these 

 are of white, red, black, and pink color. In Fig. lla (50.1-3945) is illustrated a rela- 

 tively small bag with six rows of varicolored beads and a central shell; a slender 

 stick sold with this specimen was said to be placed inside the bottom to keep it straight. 

 Another specimen (50.1-7441) not illustrated here has a similar stick inserted into a 

 sheath open at both ends that is sewed to the top of the bag. This piece is laterally 

 fringed like some of the others but differs in presenting two new features. Suspended 

 from the shoulder-strap there is a small perforated stone amulet, said to resemble the 

 charms put round a horse's neck. Secondly, there is a decoration in triplicate on 

 the side that would not be visible to spectators of the procession. The design, which 

 is in red, consists of a stem with three pairs of branches terminating in small circles, 

 the whole doubtless representing the Tobacco plant. This bag Avas said to be yery old, 

 having been used two generations prior to Gray-bull's. 



