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The Book of Woodcraft 



But now there arose a big, square-jawed man, who had 

 smoked in silence. He made a very short speech. It was 

 full of plain, good sense. He told them what he knew about 

 the United States Army — how superior it was to all the 

 Indian tribes put together, how hopeless it was to fight it — ■ 

 and urged them to give up the foolish notion of the war- 

 path. His speech would not compare with that of the 

 other. He had neither the fire nor the words — he had not 

 even the popular sympathy, and yet he quelled the dis- 

 turbance in his few sentences, and as I looked there dawned 

 on me the reason for his power. While the gifted orator of 

 the big words had in his hair a single untuf ted eagle feather, 

 the other, the man with the square jaw, had eagle feathers 

 all around his head and trailing down his back and two feet 



DETAILS OF THE WAEBONNEX 



The plab white Goose or Turkey feather. 



The same, with tip dyed black. 



The same, showing ruff of white down lashed on with wax end. 



The same, showing leather loop lashed on for the holding lace. 



The same, viewed edge on. 



The same, with a red flannel cover sewn and lashed on the quill. This is a "coup feather." 



The same, with a tuft of red horseliair lashed on the top to mark a "grand coup" and 



(a) a thread through the middle of the rib to hold the feather in proper place, This 



leather is marked mtb the symbol of a grand coup in target shooting. 



