WALL AW ALL A. 



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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. 



FEMALE 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 disease. 

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

 under great excitement, singing as follows : 



-m — l 



TH" 



=2=3— a 



-Pi 



1 — I. 5 IS " 



— szs 



~nrn 



=§3iSi- : 



i — C~r~T 



oo ha ha hi tu e oo 



ha ha ha ha ha ha — ha ha ha ha. 



i 



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 

 suit the case. She bent over the sick boy, and was constantly in 

 motion, making all kinds of grimaces. She would bare his chest, 

 and pretend by her actions to be scooping out his disease ; then she 

 would fall on her knees, and again strive to draw out the bad spirit 

 with both hands, blowing into them, and, as it were, tossing the spirit 

 into the air. 



