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mystery lodges, many sketches of which appear on the same rocks, and 
examples of which are given in Figs. 717 and 718. Undoubtedly there 
is some connection between the designs, but those now under considera- 
tion are recognized by the Indians of the general locality as the elaborate 
forms of head dress sometimes so extended as to become masks, which 
are still worn by a few of the Micmac and Abnaki women. Those women 
are or were of special authority and held positions in social and religious 
Fia. 548,—Lean-Wolf as partisan. 
ceremonies. Their ornamental head coverings tlierefore were insignia 
of their rank. The modern specimens seen by the present writer are 
elaborately wrought with beads, quills, and embroidery on fine cloth, 
velvet or satin, but were originally of skin. The patterns still used 
show some fantastic connection with those of the rock drawings of this 
class, and again the latter reproduce some of the tracings on the ground 
plans of the mystery lodges before mentioned. ‘The feathery branches 
of trees appearing on both of the two classes of illustrations are in the 
549.—Micmac head dress in pictographs. 
modern head coverings actual feathers. The first of the three figures 
shows the branch or feather inside of the pattern, and the other two 
have them outside, in which variation the bushes or branches of the 
medicine lodges show a similar proportion. The third sketch, in addi- 
tion to the exterior feathers, shows flags or streamers, which in the 
ceremonial head gear in present use is imitated by ribbons. 
