Purpose and Laws 8i 



For colors take two, three or four if you like, but two is 

 the best combination. 



Having got the Band together let them elect for one 

 year a Chief, one of their nimiber, the natural leader of the 

 gang. 



Let this leader get a blank book about 7x9, with about 

 200 pages in it, to be the TaUy Book of the band. This he 

 should either keep himself or appoint one of his band to 

 keep. He should also appoint a Wampum Keeper or else 

 take the office himself. 



THE TALLY BOOK AND HOW TO KEEP IT 



The Tally Book is the record of the Band's doings. It 

 should be kept like the proceedings of any other society. 

 The Tally Keeper who is an artist has a great advantage, as 

 a few sketches and photographs thrown in make a most 

 interesting variation. 



Some of these Tally Books are beautifully illustrated with 

 colored drawings and are highly prized. In some cases 

 each member has added his thimib mark in printer's 

 ink opposite his name when first entered. 



The first page of the Tally Book should bear an inscrip- 

 tion thus: 



The Tally Book 



of the 



Thunder Band (or whatever it is) 



of Woodcraft Indians 



For Example. The next page should say for example: 

 On the First day of the Snow Moon (January) of 1910, the 

 following assembled at No. 139 Tenth Avenue, to form a 

 Band of Indians. 



