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his dwelling, drawing on the cloth banner a picture of the bird he 

 saw in his dream. Although the cloth was torn and the drawing 

 almost effaced by sun and storm, he drew again the outline of the 

 bird (fig. .6), that the story of his dream and his medicine pole 



Fig. C. Design on cloth attached to medicine pole (native drawing). 



might be known to his white bretlii'en far away. His is the monoto- 

 nous life of a reservation Indian who can not fully adapt himself to 

 the white man's way, yet beneath it is the memory of a dream and 

 above it is the symbol of the song that never was sung. 



