1922] 



SKINNER, THE SAUK AND lOWAY INDIANS 



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told that never before had any white man gazed upon it. The quill 

 ornamentation of the stem of this pipe is shown in figure 9 (2). Chief 

 Towhee died during the great influenza epidemic, but Joe Springer 

 (who died in the summer of 1922, after the return of the writer to 

 Milwaukee) was still alive, so the writer now visited him and suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining not only this beautiful pipe, but five others. Figure 

 9 shows the beautifully quilled sections of three of these pipe stems, 



Fig. 8. — The late Chief David Towhee of the loway tribe. 



while all six of the bowls are shown in figure 10 (2-7). The pipe bowl 

 in figure 10 (1) is that of an loway chief's pipe. He also secured the 

 last existing peace pipe bundle of the practically extinct Ad^issouri tribe. 



With the assistance of Robert Small, a first-class interpreter, many 

 other fine articles were collected, and several side trips to the Oto were 

 made and a small but good collection was gathered from them as well. 

 A trip to the former loway and Great Nemaha Reservation at the 

 Kansas-Nebraska line was almost fruitless, inasmuch as the loway re- 



