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wampum bead embroidery in the writings of the early colonists and 

 explorers. 



As an indication of the antiquity of some of the specimens, espe- 

 cially these sacred bundles, which are handed down among the In- 

 dians for generation after generation, a scrap of paper, evidently 

 part of a leaf from an old patent medicine dodger, was discovered 



Fig. 71. — A buffalo-tail amulet, ornamented with em- 

 broidery of split and dyed birds' quills. From a Winne- 

 bago war bundle. Cat. No. 31866. 



enclosing some roots in an loway Tattooing bundle of the Bear gens 

 of that tribe. The paper bears a trade mark that reads as follows: 



"By The King's Royall Patent, Granted To Rob't. Turlington 

 For His Invented Balsam Of Life. London, Janu'y- 26, 1754." 



One may speculate by what chance this paper fell into the hands 



