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skin is sewed on the inside of a bag, which is suspended immediately 

 over the fire, so that httle of the smoke can escape, and the process 

 goes on rapidly. This process is necessary, otherwise it would, on 

 becoming wet, and drying afterwards, be hard and stiff. 



There were many children among these people. The young 

 Indian women, as well as the wives of the Company's servants, who 

 have married half-breeds, invariably use a long board as a cradle, on 

 which the child is strapped, and then hung up on a branch, or to 

 the saddle. When travelling, a hoop, bent over the head of the child, 

 protects it from injury. The women are usually dressed in skins 

 very much ornamented with beads. 



FE3IALE COSTUME. 



Mr. Drayton, during his stay, was attracted one day by the sound 

 of beating sticks and a kind of unearthly singing, issuing from one of 

 the lodges. On going to the lodge he found a boy, about eighteen 

 years of age, lying on his back very ill, and in the last stage of dis- 

 ease. Over him stood a medicine-woman, an old haggard -looking 

 squaw, under great excitement, singing as follows : 



m^wm^ 



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X3: 



"g~r 



S^ 



e 00 ha ha ha 



i=5- 



m 



ha ha — ha ha ha ha. 



hi tu e 00 ha ha hi 



To which shout a dozen men and boys were beating time on the 

 sticks, and singing a kind of bass or tenor accompaniment. The 

 words made use of by the old squaw varied, and were any that would 



