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warrior, and died about 1894. His scalp 

 sliirt and war-lionnet case are in the Na- 

 tional Museum. (4) The nephew of the 

 great Dohasiin II and cousin of the last 

 mentioned (3) was also called Dohasiin, 

 and always wore a silver cross with the 

 name "Tohasan" enjiraved upon it. He 

 was the author of the Scott calendar and 

 died in 1892. Shortly l)efore his death 

 he changed his name to Danpii'', 'shoul- 

 der-blade,' from dan, 'shoulder' (?), 

 leaving only Ankimii's husband (3) to 

 bear the hereditary name, which is now 

 extinct. Dohasan II, the greatest chief 

 in the history of the Kiowa tribe, in 1833 

 succeeded A'd;ite, who had been de- 

 posed for having allowed his people to 

 be surprised and massacred by the Osage 

 in that year. It was chiefly through his 

 influence that peace was made between 

 the Kiowa and Osage after the massacre 

 referred to, which has never been 

 broken. In 1862, when the Cheyenne, 

 Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, and Kiowa 

 Apache were assembled on Arkansas r. 

 to receive annuities, the agent threat- 

 ened them with punishment if they did 

 not cease their raids. Dohasan listened 

 in perfect silence to the end, when he 

 sprang to his feet, and calling the atten- 

 tion of the agent to the hundreds of tipis 

 in the valley below, replied in a charac- 

 teristic speech: "The white chief is a 

 fool. He is a coward. His heart is 

 small — not larger than a jiebble stone. 

 His men are not strong — too few to con- 

 tend against my warriors. They are 

 women. There are three chiefs — the 

 white chief, the Spanish chief, and my- 

 self. The Spanish chief and myself are 

 men. We do bad toward each other 

 sometimes — stealing horses and taking 

 scalps — but we do not get mad and act 

 the fool. The white chief is a child, and, 

 like a child, gets mad quick. When my 

 young men, to keep their women and 

 children from starving, take from the 

 white man passing through our country, 

 killing and driving away our buffalo, a 

 cup of sugar or coffee, the white chief is 

 angry and threatens to send his soldiers. 

 I have looked for them a long time, but 

 they have not come. He is a coward. 

 His heart is a woman's. I have spoken. 

 Tell the great chief what I have said." 

 In addition to the treaty of 1837 Dohasan 

 was also a signer of the treaty of Ft 

 Atkinson, Ind. T., July 27, 1853, and that 

 of Oct. 18, 1865, on Little Arkansas r., 

 Kansas. See Mooney in 17th Rep. B. A. 

 E., pt. 1, 1898. 



DokisBand. A Chippewa band, so named 

 from their chief, residing on a reserva- 

 tion of 30,300 acres at the head of French 

 r., where it leaves L. NipLssing, Ontario. 

 They have a large admixture of French 

 blood, are Roman Catholics, and obtain 



a livelihood Ijy hunting and fishing and 

 by working in adjacent lumber camps. 

 The band numbered 62 in 1884 and 78 in 

 1904. (.1. M.) 



Dolls. Dolls were common among all 

 the American tribes. They were fashioned 

 from stone, wood, clay, skin, dough, 

 corncobs, plants, and rags. Those used 

 merely as playthings were frequently 

 elaborately dressed by the mother in ac- 

 cordance with tribal costumes. Human 

 hair was sometimes fastened to the head 

 and arranged in the tribal style, the face 

 was painted, the eyebrows were marked, 

 and tattoo lines were indicated. Labrets 

 of bone or shell were put in place among 

 the trilies which used these objects, and 

 the doll was further adorned with ear- 

 rings, bracelets, and necklaces. The Es- 

 kimo father carved the small boneor ivory 

 dolls more or less elaborately, and made 

 them stand upright, to 

 the great delight of the 



Eastern Eskimo Do 



WESTERN Eskimo Doll 



children. Among these people there was 

 a festival in which small figures or dolls 

 were used to represent the dead, at which 

 time the people jirepared and partook of 

 food in their presence in memory of the 

 time when those represented were living. 

 The corncob and rag dolls were usually 

 of the chihl's own manufacture. Those 

 made of dough were used in a social cere- 

 mony among the Iroquois. Dolls were 

 provided with cradles, clothing, tents, and 

 vessels and utensils of clay. 



In the S. W. and the extreme N. little 

 figures were made for ceremonies in which 

 mythic ancestors or dead relatives were 

 remembered. Travelers have sometimes 

 mistaken these figures for idols. Among 

 the Hopi these little figures are of soft 

 Cottonwood, so cut and painted as to indi- 

 cate in miniature the elaborate head- 

 dress, decorated face, body, and clothing 



