1923] 



SKINNER, UNUSUAL ETHNOLOGICAL SPECIMENS 



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In figure 69 is shown the principal, and almost the onh^, object 

 contained in a war bundle of the Sauk Beaver gens. It consists of 

 the skin of an adult beaver stuffed, apparently with native tobacco. 

 To it are attached no less than forty wisps and fragments of human 

 scalps, several of which, from their brown hair, seern to be those of 



Fig. 69. — Beaver skin and otter skin decorated 

 with hviman scalps and porcupine quill work. 

 Cat. Nos. 31806 and 31796. Length-s 32 and 

 33 inches. 



white men. One eye of the beaver still remains, and is made of a 

 bone or shell disk bead attached with a sinew cord. No data is ob- 

 tainable on this specimen, since the Beaver clan is all but extinct 

 among the Sauk, but, judging by analogy with a specimen obtained 

 last year from the Bear-potato clan^^ these scalps, some of which 



"Public Museum Yearbook, 1922, p. 13, plate IV. 



