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A cvin (pronounced as the u in cushion) corresponds with our cradle. 

 The squaw makes this out of wood and buckskiu. The back is hewn 

 from a board and then covered with skin. Then the pouch is formed 

 of the proper size and shape and so arranged that when the child is 

 laid in, the flaps are laced tightly down the front, so that it may- 

 be fixed immovably in it. Above the baby's head is always a little 

 wicker-work awning into which it fits loosely, and day or night the 

 arrangement, pappoose and all, is leaned up against the ivic1c'-e-u;p, and 

 the infant is only removed from its coffin in cases of necessity. The 

 squaw carries this on her back on journeys, though she go afoot or on 

 horse-back, and it is secured by a strap passing across her breast. 

 When the little one cries, it is gently swayed from side to side by the 

 mother, and the soothing motion soon rocks it to sleep. 



One of the greatest luxuries of the Ute toilet is the Turkish bath. It 

 is such a rare thing for an Indian to perform his ablutions, that when 

 he does so it is considered a great occasion, and must be done in no 

 ordinary way. In fact, scarcely anything but sickness can prevail upon 

 a Ute to wash himself, and perhaps three-fourths of the tribe never 

 apply water to their external bodies. The bath is constructed and used 

 in the following manner : A frame-work of poles is set up in the shape 

 of a hemisphere, the base being ijerhaps six feet in diameter. This 

 skeleton is covered with blankets, robes, and skins, in order to bar out 

 the gaze of profane eyes. In the center of this dome-shaped apartment 

 a cylindrical hole is dug in the earth to the depth of about two feet, and 

 six or eight inches in diameter. In the bottom of this a fire is built, 

 and when several inches of the excavation are occupied with hot coals, 

 the hole is filled to the top with stones, which soon become heated and 

 ready for use. The patient then disrobes, and, standing or sitting over 

 the bath, pours a bucket of cold water upon the stones, which generate 

 steam ; and thus, surrounded by a cloud of vapor, the Indian enjoys to 

 the fullest extent what might be called a primitive Turkish bath. 



The bone whistle which I obtained, was captured from the Arrapahoe 

 Indians, by the Utes, in a skirmish at Pine Grove, Wyoming Territory. 

 It is decorated with bunches of human hair tied to the otter-skin trim- 

 mings. The necklace is made of grizzly bears' claws, fastened on a band 

 of leather which is covered with bead- work. The necklace has been used 

 in the tribe for several years, and was at length bought from an old man 

 into whose possession it had fallen. 



Yoccibulary of Ute fYamjmJ ivords. 



ENGLISH. 



Arm. 



Blood. 



Friend. 



Knife. 



Tobacco. 



Sun. 



Water. 



Dog. 



Wolf. 



Beaver. 



That (one). 



Name. 



Black. 



Small. 



You. 



All. 



Poor-all'. 



Pwap. 



Tig'-a-boo. 



Weetch. 



Quap. 



Tah'-by. 



Pah. 



Sar-rich'. 



You-o'ge. 



Povr'-iuch. 



Inch. 



Pis-ah'-nce. 



To'-quer. 



May'-pootz. 



Em. 



Mab-no'-nee. 



ENGLISH 



UTE. 



To-morrow. 



Way'-tchook. 



Yes. 



Oo'-ah. 



No. 



Katsh. 



One. 



Su'-is, or su'tis. 



Two. 



Wy'-une, or wine. 



Three. 



Pi'-uue, or pine. 



Four. 



Wa't-shu-e'-nee. 



Five. 



Man'-i-giu. 



Six. 



Na-vine'. 



Nine 



Sur-rom'-sn-e-nce. 



Ten. 



Tom'-sbu-e-nee. 





j Wat-shu-e'-nee, 

 } Tom'-shu-e-uec. 



Forty. 





i Man'-i-gin. 



Fifty. 



/ Tom'-shu-e-nee. 



