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when they did not raise them on trees or scaffolds. Indeed, on the 

 Prairie Potawatomi reservation near Mayetta, Kansas, he has seen 

 similar places still utilized in this way, by these clans, with very shal- 

 low burials, and often even surface burials. As this group of mounds 

 has no name, it is therefore suggested that they be called by the name 

 conferred by one of the notables of the Prairie Potawatomi Bald 

 Eagle gens upon Mr. Charles G. Schoewe, one of the Vice Presidents 

 of the Wisconsin Archeological Society, last spring. An ancient 

 name, belonging to the sacred shrine or bundle of the clan, and one 

 that is quite appropriate, as applied to the dead whose dreams were 

 disturbed on this high knoll by the archeologist's shovel, "The Knoll 

 of 'The-Sleeper-Above.' " 



SOME UNUSUAL ETHNOLOGICAL SPECIMENS 



Bv Alanson Skinneri* 



Among the ethnological specimens gathered by the writer during 

 the spring of 1923, or sent in later by the Indians, are several rare 

 examples of old time handicraft which are seldom seen today, even in 

 the collections of the great museums of North America. 



In a war bundle obtained from the bundle house of the Wolf gens 

 of the Sauk of Oklahoma, is an exceptionally fine headdress composed 

 of split and polished buffalo horns attached to a cap of red strouding, 

 with bunches of white antelope or deer hair fastened over the crown. 

 The most interesting feature of the headdress, however, is a forehead 

 band of imitation glass wampum, woven after the manner of wampum 

 belts on a foundation of thongs and yarn or blanket ravellings. 



This headdress, shown in figure 68, is unquestionably of consider- 

 able antiquity, and is especially interesting in that while wampum 

 belts and bands of the genuine old shell beads are seen in many col- 

 lections, articles made of the glass imitation beads, other than mere 

 strung necklaces, are of much greater rarity. The writer knows of 

 two other examples — one, from the Irquois, being a belt in the Museum 

 of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, of New York, and the other, 

 a small belt from the Stockbridge of Wisconsin, in the collection of 

 Mr. J. P. Schumacher of Green Bay. 



In a Sauk war bundle of the Buffalo gens, obtained in the same 

 locality as the preceding specimen, is a war kilt or girdle made up of a 

 band of red strouding to tie about the waist, from the front of which is 

 pendent an ornament made of a piece of tanned deerskin, which has 



"Curator of Anthropology, Milwaukee Public Museum. 



