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''that was the year I killed the bh'd.' In explanation t)f this he said 

 that the people were moving camp and he was with his grandmother, 

 who liad taken care of him since his infancy, when his mother died. 

 He said, "1 killed the bird and took it to my grandmother." (See 

 pi. 60, B.) "If I killed many she would carry them all, and when we 

 camped at niglit she would eat my hunting, and I would eat some 

 too." lie said that his father first called him Ma'za-lyo'wa^te when 

 he kiUed tlie bird. His name before that time is not recorded. 



In iiis young manliood Jaw was known especially for his success 

 in stealing horses from the enemy. In acklition to his narratives of 

 expeditions for this purpose he gave general information concerning 

 war customs. Among otluT things he recalled that in the old days 

 each warrior carried his own wooden bowl (pi. 61), hung by a cord 

 from his belt. It is said that "A man on the warpath always ate and 

 drank from his own (hsh. When he returned home the <lish was put 

 away with other articles which he used on the warj^ath and sweet 

 grass was put with it." ^ 



Jaw's manner of painting himself and his horse when going on the 

 warpath was as foUows: He painted a red crescent over his mouth, 

 the points of the crescent extending upward halfway to his cheek- 

 bones. His hands were painted red from the wrists and liis feet from 

 the ankles. A large crescent like that on his face was })ainted on 

 his horse's chest, and a smaller one on the animal's left hip, while 

 the entire end of the horse's nose was painted yellow. If a horse suc- 

 ceeded in some difficult undertaking it was his custom to reward the 

 animal by putting a feather in its mane or tail, or a band of red list- 

 cloth around its neck. (See p. 298.) 



Jaw had two medicine bags containing the same 'medicine,' one 

 for his horse and one for himself. The horse's medicine bag was tied 

 to the bit of its bridle. He said that if his horse "had a headache" 

 he chewed a certain herb and put it into the horse's moutli, wliere- 

 upon the trouble was relieved at once. This was probably the herb 

 numbered 4 in the component parts of his war 'medicine.' Jaw 

 said that when going to steal horses he often went to windward of 

 them and chewed this herb, at which tlie horses at once "pricked up 

 their ears," being attracted by it. 



Wlicn on the warpath. Jaw carried a leather pouch containing 

 vermiUon paint mixed with grease, for applying to his face and body. 

 This pouch is sho\Mi in plate 61, together with Jaw's wai- whistle 

 and a warrior's bowl. On his slioulder he wor(^ a wolf skin, to the 

 nose of which was tied his war whistle ^ and to this whistle was 



' Regulations for protect ing the health of a Chippewa war party are given in Bull. 53, p. 85. 



2 The dimensions und description of this whistle ;ire the sunie as those of the undeporated Sun-dance whistle 

 illustrated on p.9Sexcept that the sound hole in this whistle bears the marks of havins; been cut with asaw. 

 Mr. E. H. Hawley of the I'. S. National Museum states this to be the first instance of such cutting which 

 has come under his observation. 



