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and make themselves useful there. Beside each body lay a bundle of 

 earthly goods — blankets, leggings, saddles, &c., also cups, tin pots, 

 kettles, and everything that the spirit of the departed could be supposed 

 to want. Pursuing our explorations we came upon a ' death teepee.' I 

 had heard of these, and had often desired to see one. It was just an 

 ordinary teepee, or Indian lodge, made of poles leaning from the edge of a 

 circle, fifteen feet or so in diameter, to a point at the top, and covered 

 with common tent-cloth. The stench was disgusting, and the ground 

 like a cesspool ; but I wanted to see all, so we effected an entrance and 

 examined the contents. The old warrior, whoever he may have been, 

 was wrapped up in rotting, sodden blankets, sitting with his back against 

 an ordinary Indian back-rest. "We could not see his face, as the blanket 

 covered it, but the top of his scalp was visible and a great bunch of 

 slimy, filthy-looking eagle feathers adorned his head ; just behind him 

 hung his leathern quiver, ornamented with a leathern fringe, two feet in 

 length and full of arrows ; also his beaded tobacco-pouch ; and by his side 

 were a tin basin, a fire-blackened tin pot with a cover, and a large bundle 

 of blankets, clothing, and other effects. I made a hasty sketch of the 

 dismal scene and then retired. We were glad to mount our horses once 

 more and to breathe again the fresh air of the prairie. 



Physical Development. 



The Sarcees do not strike me as so fine or tall a race as the Blackfeet, 

 although one whose measure I here give was of about the same height as 

 the Blackfoot Indian, 'Boy Chief,' whom I measured last year. They 

 have remarkably small hands and feet. I traced on paper the hand of a 

 Sarcee Indian named ' Head above Water.' 



Following is the measurement of an adult Sarcee, about thirty years 

 of age, named ' Many Shields.' 



ft. in. 



1. Height from ground to vertex' 5 8|- 



2. „ „ meatus auditorius . . . . 5 3J 



3. „ „ chin 4 ll| 



5. „ „ umbilicus 3 5| 



7. „ „ fork 2 8 



8. „ „ knee-cap joint 1 8|- 



11. „ ., elbow (bent) 3 6| 



12. „ „ tip of finger (hanging vertically) . 2 2^ 



13. Height — sitting on the ground 2 llj 



16. Circumference of chest at armpits 3 



17. „ „ mammaj 2 llj 



18. „ at haunches 2 11^ 



26. Span — outstretched arms 5 8^ 



27. „ thumb to middle finger 7^ 



28. Length of thumb 2^ 



29. „ foot 9| 



30. Head — greatest circumference (over glabella) . . .1 ll| 



31. „ arc, root of nose to inion 14 



32. „ ,, meatus auditorius, over head . . . . 1 If 



33. „ ,, over glabella to meatus auditorius . . .11 

 41. „ length of face, root of nose to chin . . . .0 5^ 



Hair, eyes, and skin the same as those of the Blackfoot Indian ' Boy 

 Chief (see Report of 1887). 



' In he measurements of the Blackfoot ' Boy Chief,' given in the Report of last 

 year, the ' height from ground to vertex ' should have been 5 ft. 8| in., instead of 

 4 ft. 8| in., as printed. 



