280 PIPE OF PEACE. 
presentatives of their enemies, with the most 
taunting and insulting bravadoes; branding the 
nation with cowardice and effeminacy; daring 
them to come forward and revenge the blood 
of their slain; then concluding with scofis 
and exulting yells at the dastardly silence of 
their enemies, whom they represent as afraid 
to whisper a note of vengeance against their 
superiors and masters, the triumphing con- 
querors. After the warriors have become fa- 
_ tigued, the squaws and children generally 
continue the barbarous festivity ; in the midst 
of which some vainglorious brave will rise 
perhaps, and repeat the apostrophic fanfaro- 
nades, representing that the very squaws and 
papooses hold them in cowering submission, 
and that henceforth these only will be sent to 
subdue them; their watriors being reserved 
for more noble enemies. These brutal rites 
and rodomontades being concluded, the scalps 
are handed to their owners, who cure and 
paint them for future war-dances and other 
kindred ceremonies. 
When a tribe wishes to celebrate a eee 
of peace with an enemy, a 
their warriors, as ambassadors, or verlaial a 
whole band, move to the neighborhood, and 
send the calumet or pipe of peace, which sup- 
plies the place of the flag of truce among 
civilized nations:* though, when the embassy 
* This seems to have been of ancient and general use among the 
—— of North America. ‘I must speak here of the Cale” 
