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SKINNER, THE SAUK AND lOWAY INDIANS 



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Macloud, Oklahoma, was also obtained. The Kickapoo are, on the 

 whole, much more conservative than the Sauk, but this bundle was kept 

 in the loft of the Sauk Wolf gens bundle house. It had been brought 

 there years ago by the members of a Kickapoo Wolf gens war party 

 who had killed some of their enemies (it is said that they took four 

 scalps), and were afraid of Governmental retribution. They begged 

 leave of their Sauk congeners to leave the bundle there and never re- 

 turned for it. In the course of time all claimants of the bundle died, 

 except one woman, and Mr. Harris, our Sauk interpreter, went to her 

 country, searched her out, and bought her rights to the bundle. The 

 finest article in it is a prisoner tie with a broad ornamental band to go 



Fig. 6.- 



-Scene in the Kickapoo village at Macloud, near Shawnee, Oklahoma. 

 Both the bark and the mat covered house are here shown. 



around the neck. It is made of Indian hemp embroidered heavily with 

 dyed deer hair after the manner of the burden straps of the Iroquois. 

 This prisoner tie is shown in figure 5 (3). Other notable articles in 

 this bundle are shown in this same figure. 1 is a carved antler spatula, 

 probably used for mixing medicines. 2 is a weasel skin with rattle- 

 snake rattles attached and also bearing a portion of a human scalp, to 

 show the deadliness of this helper of the warriors. 4 is an Indian hemp 

 prisoner tie of unusual type, with porcupine quill ornaments and metal 

 jinglers. 



This conservatism of the Kickapoo is shown in the fact that both 



