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types of bark house are not only still found among them, but are com- 

 monly used as dwellings. In figure 6 both the mat and the bark covered 

 structures are illustrated. 



Figure 7 shows a Kickapoo woman weaving one of the characteristic 

 reed mats made by that tribe. 



Some war-bundles of a hitherto unknown type, called "charging 

 war-bundles," because they are carried as they are into battle on forlorn 

 hope attacks, were likewise collected from the Sauk. One of these, 

 shown in figure 3 (1), is composed principally of the dried skin of a 

 duck hawk contained in a tight envelope of deerskin, with cords to 

 attach it to the left hip when charging naked into the fray. 



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A Kickapoo woman weax iiig a reed mat. 



Not far from the present headquarters of the Sauk, dwell the loway 

 Indians, a people of the Siouan linguistic stock, related in no way to the 

 Sauk, with whom they have ever been on friendly terms, but to our own 

 Wisconsm Winnebago, the Missouri and the Oto. 



In the year 1914, the writer had the privilege of working for some 

 weeks with the late chief of the tribe, David Towhee, who is shown in 

 full regalia in figure 8, and with another man of prominence, Joe 

 Springer, collecting specimens and data for the American Museum of 

 Natural History of New York. At that time he was shown one of the 

 sacred peace pipes of the tribe, of which there v^^ere seven, and was 



