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BRAIN BRIGHT EYES 



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Box FOR Small Articles; ESKl^ 

 1-3. (Murdoch) 



measure due to their damp and freezing 

 environment, in which, though wood was 

 scarce, boxes were better than pouches 

 for keeping the contents dry. It ap- 

 pears that to the introduction of tobacco, 

 percussion caps, and powder is due the 

 great number 

 of small boxes 

 manufactured 

 by the Eskimo, 

 although they 

 had previously 

 many boxes for 

 trinkets, lance- 

 heads, tinder, 

 etc. Eskimo 

 boxes are pro- 

 V i d e d wit h 

 cords for fasten- 

 ing them to the 

 person to pre- 

 vent loss in the 

 snow. Boxes and chests, being difficult 

 of transportation even on water, must be 

 looked for chiefly among sedentary tribes 

 living in a wooded country. Tribes that 

 moved freely about stored and transported 

 their goods in bags, rawhide cases, and 

 basket wallets. Boxes and chests of wood 

 are practically 

 u n k n o w n 

 among t h e 

 Plains tribes, 

 w h i c h h a d 

 abundant 

 skins of large 

 animals out of 

 which to make 



receptacles for woodenBox for whaling amulet; Eskimo; 



their posses- '"' ^"""""'"^ 



sions, and the horse and the dog as pack 

 and draft animals. Some of the Plains 

 tribes, however, made box-like cases or 

 trunks of rawhide similar in shape to the 

 birch-bark boxes of the eastern tribes, 



HOUSEHOLD CHESTS WITH CARVED AND PAINTED DESIGNS; 

 HAIDA; 1-18. < NIBLACk) 



and the Sioux made plume boxes of 

 wood. Objects and materials that could 

 be injured l)y crushing or by damp- 

 ness usually required a box, the most 

 widespread use of which was for the stor- 

 ing of feathers. The Plains tribes and 

 some others made parfleches, or cases of 

 rawhide, almost as rigid as a wooden box, 

 for headdresses, arrows, etc. ; the Pima, 

 Papago, and 3Iohave made basket cases 

 for feathers; and the Pueblos employed a 



WOODEN BOX FOR FEATHERS; HOPI; 

 1-15. ( J. STEVENSON ^ 



box, usually excavated from a single piece 

 of Cottonwood, solely for holding the 

 feathers used in ceremonies. The Yurok 

 of California made a cylindrical wooden 

 box in two sections for storing valuables. 

 The eastern woodland tribes made boxes 

 of birch Ijark. The N. W. coast tribes as 

 far s. as Washington made large chests 

 of wood for storing 

 food, clothing,etc. ; 

 for cooking, for rip- 

 ening salmon eggs, 

 for the interment 

 of the dead, for 

 drums and other 

 uses, and these were usually decorated 

 with carving or painting, or both. These 

 tribes also made long boxes as quivers for 

 arrows, but smaller boxes were not so 

 common among them as among the Es- 

 kimo. 



Consult Boas, Decorative Art of the 

 Indians of the North Pacific Coast, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Xat. Hist., ix, no. 10, 1897; 

 Kroeber in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XVIII, pt. 1, 1902; Nelson, Eskimo about 

 Bering Strait, 18th Rep. B. A. E., 1899; 

 Niblack, Coast Indians, Rep. Nat.' Mus. 

 1888, 1890; Stevenson in 2d Rep. B. A. 

 E., 1883; Swan, Indians of Cape Flattery, 

 Smithson. Cont. , xvi, 1870; Swanton in 

 :\[em. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., v, pt. 1, 1905. 

 See Bags and pouches, Basketry, Farjieche, 

 Receptacles, Wood-work, etc. (w. h.) 



Brain. See Anatomij. 



Brant, Joseph. See Thayendanegea . 



Breastworks. See Fortifications. 



Breche-dent. See Broken Tooth. 



Breech-cloth. See Child life, Clothing. 



Bridge Kiver Indians. A band of Upper 

 Lillooet occupying the village of Kanlax, 

 on Bridge r., which flows into the upper 

 Eraser above Lillooet, Brit. Col. ; pop. 

 108 in 1902.— Can. Ind. Aff., pt. ii, 72, 

 1902. 



Briertown. A former Cherokee settle- 

 ment on Nantahala r., about the mouth 

 of Briertown cr., in Macon co., N. C. — 

 Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 524, 1900. 

 Kanu'gulayi, — Mooney, ibid, ('brier place'). 

 Kanu'gu'luii'yi, — Ibid.' See Xantahaln. 



Bright Eyes. True name, Susette La 

 Flesche. The eldest child of Eshtamaza, 

 or Joseph La Flesche, a former head-chief 

 of the Omaha. She was I)orn in Nebraska 

 about 1850 and attended the Presbyterian 

 mi.ssion school on the Omaha res. 

 Through the interest of one of her teach- 

 ers, Susette was sent to a private school 

 in JElizabeth, N. J., where she made rapid 

 progress in her studies. After her return 

 home she taught in a Government day 

 school on the Omaha res. and exercised a 

 stimulating influence on the young people 

 of the tribe. In 1877-78 the Ponca were 

 forcibly removed to Indian Territory from 



