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The originals of these ghosl shirts, now in the National Museum, were taken, by 

 scouts p reseii I during the fight, from the bodies of Indians killed at Wounded Knee, 

 ami were obtained by the author, a) Pine Ridge, from Philip Wells anil Louis 

 Meiianl. mixed-blood interpreters, the former having also been present as inter 

 prater for the Indian scouts during the fight. They are made of coarse while cloth, 

 sewn with sinew. One of the shirts is partially binned, having probably been 

 taken out of one of the tipis overturned and set on fire dining the action. Two 

 other ghost shirts, said to be from the sane battlefield, are also in the National 

 Museum. 



