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show good sized portions of human skin, represent scalps of enemies 

 taken by warriors of the Beaver clan when this particular bundle was 

 in use. This figure also shows a skin of an animal, perhaps an otter, 

 taken from another Beaver gens bundle which has quilled ornaments on 

 the feet and three wisps of scalps in its mouth. 



From a Buffalo Doctor's bundle of the loway Indians, a tribe of 



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Fig. 70. — loway Indian buffalo-tail amulet, 

 ornamented with wampum head embroidery. 

 Cat. No. 31572. Length 16 inches. 



the Chiwere Siouan stock, was taken an amulet made of the tail of a 

 buffalo which is ornamented with embroidery of wampum beads, 

 both in white and purple, sewn on the skin with sinew (figure 70). It 

 is, so far as the writer is aware, the only surviving example of this 

 technique in America, although there are frequent references to 



