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The features were regular. I measured the length of one of the bones 

 of the arm with a string, from the elbow to the wrist-joint, and they 

 equalled my own in length, viz., ten and a half inches. From the 

 examination of the whole frame I judged the figure to be that of a 

 very tall female, say five feet ten inches in height. 1 The body, at the 

 time it was discovered, weighed but fourteen pounds, and was per- 

 fectly dry ; on exposure to the atmosphere, it gained in weight, by 

 absorbing dampness, four pounds. ****** 



" The color of the skin was dark, not black ; the flesh was hard and 

 dry upon the bones. At the side of the body lay a pair of mocca- 

 sins, 2 a knapsack, and an indispensable, or reticule. 3 I will describe 

 these in the order in which I have named them. The moccasins 

 were made of wove or knit bark, like the wrapper I have described. 

 Around the top was a border to add strength, and perhaps as an 

 ornament. These were of middling size, denoting feet of a small 

 size. The shape of the moccasins differs but little from the deer- 

 skin moccasins worn by the northern Indians. 4 The knapsack 5 

 was of wove or knit bark, with a deep, strong border around the top, 

 and was about the size of knapsacks used by soldiers. The work- 

 manship of it was neat, and such as would do credit, as a fabric, to a 

 manufacturer of the present day. The reticule 6 was also made of 

 knit or wove bark. The shape was much like a horseman's valise, 

 opening its whole length on the top. On the side of the opening, 

 and a few inches from it, were two rows of loops, one row on each 

 side. Two cords were fastened to the one end of the reticule at the 

 top, which passed through the loop on one side, and then on the other 

 side, the whole length, by which it was laced up and secured. The 



1 Probably from my measurements not over five feet. 



2 These are not now with the body. 



3 Another article, which is still well preserved, is made 'of a very firm and 

 strongly woven material, resembling by its width and strength the webbing sad- 

 dle girth "of the present day. This finely made piece of cloth is thirteen inches 

 long and four inches wide, with the ends fringed, and was probably some special 

 article of female use. 



4 This description agrees • very well, in a general way, with the sandals I found 

 in Salt Cave, though the writer is probably incorrect in regard to the shape being 

 the same as that of the leather moccasons of the Indians. 



s There is a large, bag-like article still with the collection which I suppose is the 

 article called the knapsack, 

 e Still preserved in comparatively good condition. 



