1875.] 325 [Putnam. 



edges of the top of the reticule were strengthened with deep, fancy 

 borders. The articles contained in the knapsack and reticule were 

 quite numerous, and were as follows : one head-cap, 1 made of wove 

 or knit bark, without any border, and of the shape of the plainest 

 night-cap ; seven head dresses, made of the quills of large birds, and 

 put together somewhat in the way that feather-fans are made, except 

 that the pipes of the quills are not drawn to a point, but are spread 

 out in straight lines with the top. This was done by perforating the 

 pipe of the quill in two places, and running two cords through the 

 holes, and then winding round the quills 2 and the cord fine thread, 

 to fasten each quill in the place designed for it. These cords ex- 

 tended some length beyond the quills on each side, so that on placing 

 the feathers erect, the cords could be tied together at the back of the 

 head. This would enable the wearer to present a beautiful display 

 of feathers standing erect, and extending a distance above the head, 

 and entirely surrounding it. These were most splendid head dresses, 

 and would be a magnificent ornament to the head of a female at the 

 present day. Several hundred strings of beads ; 3 these consisted of 

 very hard, brown seed, smaller than hemp-seed, in each of which a 

 small hole had been made, and through the whole a small three 

 corded thread, similar in appearance and texture to seine twine ; 

 these were tied up in bunches, as a merchant ties up coral-beads 

 when he exposes them for sale. The red hoofs 4 of fawns, on a string 

 supposed to be worn around the neck as a necklace. These hoofs 

 were about twenty in number, and may have been emblematic of in- 

 nocence. The claw 5 of an eagle, with a hole made in it, through 

 which a cord was passed, so that it could be worn pendant from the 

 neck. The jaw of a bear, 6 designed to be worn in the same manner 

 as the eagle's claw, and supplied with a cord to suspend it around 

 the neck. Two rattlesnake-skins ; 6 one of these had fourteen rattles ; 

 these skins were neatly folded up. Some vegetable colors 6 done up 

 in leaves. A small bunch of deer sinews, 6 resembling catgut in ap- 

 pearance. Several bunches of thread and twine, two and three 



1 Still preserved in comparatively good condition. 



2 A number of the feathers still exist and a few show the string in place as de- 

 scribed. The feathers also exhibit faint traces of artificial coloring of a greenish 

 tint. 



3 Quite a number of these bunches of seed-beads are still preserved. 

 * A few of these hoofs ( ?) still exist. 



5 Probably lost. 



6 These several articles are no longer with the collection. 



