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pantaloons, enormous overcoats, made of green blankets, and 

 white wool hats, with round crowns, fitting tightly to the head, 

 brims five inches wide, and almost hard enough to resist a rifle 

 ball. 



The day following we saw about one hundred Indians of the 

 Saquc tribe, who had left their native forests for the purpose of 

 treat in"- for the sale of some land at the Jefferson barracks. 

 They were dressed and decorated in the true primitive style; 

 their heads shaved closely, and painted with alternate stripes of 

 fiery red and deep black, leaving only the long scalping tuft, 

 in which was interwoven a quantity of elk hair and eagle's fea- 

 thers. Each man was furnished with a good blanket, and some 

 had an under dress of calico, but the greater number were en- 

 tirely naked to the waist. The faces and bodies of the men 

 were, almost without an exception, fantastically painted, the pre- 

 dominant color being deep red, with occasionally a few stripes 

 of dull clay white around the eyes and mouth. I observed one 

 whose body was smeared with light colored clay, interspersed 

 with black streaks. They were unarmed, with the exception of 

 tomahawks and knives. The chief of the band, (who is said 

 to be Black Hawk's father-in-law,) was a large dignified looking 

 man, of perhaps fifty-five years of age, distinguished from the 

 rest, by his richer habiliments, a more profuse display of trinkets 

 in his cars, (which were cut and gashed in a frightful manner 

 to receive them,) and above all, by a huge necklace made of the 

 claws of the grizzly bear. The squaws, of whom there were 

 about twenty, were dressed very much like the men, and at a little 

 distance could scarcely be distinguished from them. Among them 

 was an old, superannuated crone, who, soon after her arrival, 

 had been presented with a broken umbrella. The only use that 

 she made of it was to wrench the plated ends from the whale- 

 bones, string them on a piece of wire, take her knife from her 

 belt, with which she deliberately cut a slit of an inch in leno-th 



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