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a.62. Chah-ee-chopes, tlie Four Wolves ; a chief, a fine-looking fellow, his hair reach- 

 ing to the ground; his medicine (mystery) iag of the skin of the ermine. 

 Painted in 1832. 



(Plate No. 24, page .50, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years. ) 

 This man was in mourning, having some of his locks cut off, six feet in stature, and 

 whose natural hair sweeps the grass as he walks. He is beautifully clad, and carries 

 himself with the most graceful and manly mien. He is in mourning for a brother, 

 and, according to their custom, has cut off a number of locks of his long hair, which is 

 as much as a man can well spare of so valued an ornament, which he has been for 

 the greater part of his life cultivating ; whilst a woman who mourns for a husband or 

 child is obliged to crop her hair short to her head, and so remain till it grows out 

 again, ceasing gradually to mourn as her hair approaches to its former length. — G. C. 



163. Ee-hee-a-duck-cee— a, He who ties his Hair Before ; a man of six feet stature, 



whose natural hair drags on the ground as he walks. Painted in 1832. 

 (Plate No. 78, page 193, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



164. Pa-r£s-ka-r6o-pa, the Two Crows ; chief of a band ; his hair sweeps the ground] 



his head-dress made of the eagle's skin entire ; he holds in his hand his 

 lance and two medicine hags, the one of his own instituting, the other taken 

 from his enemy, whom he had killed in battle. Painted in 1832. 

 (Plate No. 77, page 193, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



165. H6-ra-t6-a, ; a brave wrapped in his robe, and his hair reaching 



to the ground ; hia epear in his hand and bow and quiver slung. Painted 

 in 1836. (No plate.) 



166. 06-je-en-S.-he-cL, the Woman who lives in the Bear's Den ; her hair cut off, she 



being in mourning. Painted in 1836. 



(Plate No. 25, page 50, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years. ) 



The extraordinary length of hair amongst the Crows is confined to the men alone ; 

 for the women, though all of them with glossy and beautiful hair and a great pro- 

 fusion of it, are unable to cultivate it to so great a length, or else they are not allowed 

 to compete with their lords in a fashion so ornamental, and on which they pride them- 

 selves, and are obliged in many cases to cut it short off. 



The fashion of long hair amongst the men prevails throughout all the Wesitern 

 and Northwestern tribes, after passing the Sacs and Foxes ; and the Pawnees of the 

 Platte, who, with two or three other tribes only, are in the habit of shaving nearly 

 the whole head. 



The present chief of the Crows is caUed "Long Hair," and has received his name 

 as well as his office from the circumstance of having the longest hair of any man in 

 the nation. (Not painted.) 



Messrs. Sublette and Campbell told me they had lived in his hospitable lodge for 

 months together, and assured me that they had measured his hair by a correct means, 

 and found it to be ten feet and seven inches in length, closely inspecting every part 

 of it at the same time, and satisfying themselves that it was the natural growth. 



On ordinary occasions it is wound with a broad leather strap from his head to its 

 extreme end, and then folded up into a budget, or block, of some ten or twelve inches 

 in length and of some pounds weight, which, when he walks, is carried under his 

 arm or placed in his bosom, within the folds of his robe ; but on any great parade or 

 similar occasion his pride is to unfold it, oil it with bear's grease, and let it drag be- 

 hind him, some three or four feet of it spread out upon the grass, and black and shin- 

 ing like the raven's wing. 



It is a common custom amongst most of these upper tribes to splice or add on sev- 

 eral lengths of hair by fastening them with glue, probably for the purpose of imitat- 



