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their dress. They also wear half dollars and dollars hung in the 

 same manner, but those are not hammered. Occasionally, though 

 rarely, they make very thin large discs of hammered silver, which 

 are worn by the women over the breasts, one on each side. The 

 men do not paint their faces, but occasionally wear ornaments when 



\-isiting a white man"s camp or going to a town on a trading expedi- 

 tion. I am told they somedmes paint their faces during the cere- 

 mony of the Green Corn Dance, but was unable to get any definite 

 information on this subject. Somedmes the men wear bracelets of 

 silver, but it is not a verv common custom, as I have never seen but 



