478 The Book of Woodcraft 



Orange. By boiling with the inner bark of alder or 

 sassafras. 



Scarlet. Dye yellow first then dip in red. 



Most berries and barks yield a dye, and experiments with 

 them often result in delightful discoveries. 



NAMING THE CAMP — OR KEEPING THE WINTER-COUNT 



When the return of the Grass-moon told the Indians that 

 the New Year had come and that the old year had gone, the 

 council debated the question: By what name shall we re- 

 member this last year? All names suggested by events 

 were brought in. Smallpox Year, White-buffalo Year, 

 Many-scalps Year, and so on. When a decision was reached 

 the Keeper of the Winter-count made a pictograph in proper 

 place on the Painted Robe, and so this record was kept. 



In our tribes we select the name by which each Camp- 

 out is likely to be remembered, and enter that in the Tally 

 Book. 



Thus we have: Camp-nothing-but-rain, Camp-bully- 

 fun, Camp-robin's-nest-on-the-teepee, etc. 



ARCHERY 



The tribe should own a Standard Target — that is, 4 feet 

 across, circular, made of straw, with a thin oilcloth cover, 

 marked with a 9.6 inch centre of gold (called by some of our 

 tribes "The Buffalo's Eye"); outside of that a 4.8-inch 

 band of red, next a similar band of blue, next of black, next 

 of white. Sometimes black rings of the right size are 

 made to answer. 



In scoring, the gold is 9, the red 7, the blue 5, tlie 

 black 3, the white I. The shortest match range for the 

 target is 40 yards. If it is a 3-foot target the match range is 

 reduced to 30 yards. 



