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moccasins. The use of the clamshell as an implement for skinning 

 buffalo may have had its origin in som(^ emergency. Plate 67 shows a 

 clamshell which was said to have been used for that purpose, with the 

 case in which it was carried. The size of the shell indicates that it was 

 fomid at some distance from the territory of the Sioux, while the shts 

 at the top of the case show that it was attached to the belt of the 

 owner. This specimen was purchased from the mother of Eagle 



Fig. 32. Apparatus for cooking meat without a kettle. 



Shield, who was a very old woman. Plate 67 shows also a skinning 

 knife made of the shoulder blade of a buffalo, the handle being wound 

 with buffalo hide. The wounded man wanted soup, but the party 

 carried no utensil large enough for boiling meat. Eagle Shield, re- 

 membering, however, that his grandfather told liim how the warriors 

 of his day cooked meat in the stomach casing of the slain animal, 

 resolved to try the experiment. The casing, suspended on a tripod, 

 was filled with water in which heated stones were placed. (See fig. 32.) 



