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painted with red and black streaks, and streamers (‘‘handkerchiefs”, the 
Indians called them) fastened atop; then with their bodies painted in like 
manner and feathers on their heads, they danced around them in a circle. 
This excitement raged all over Northern California, especially among the 
Yurok, Karok, and Shasta, until the Modok war broke out, November, 
1872, when it gradually subsided. 
