66 i\m INS 01 THE PLAIN8. 



Northern Shoshone, Plains-Cree, and Sarsi use a 

 smaller pouch of quite a different typo, also reported 

 from the Saulteaux and Cree of the Woodland area. 

 These objects are, however, so often presented to visit- 

 ing Indians that collectors find it difficult to separate 

 the intrusions from the native samples for any particu- 

 lar tribe. 



We have some reason for thinking that the Dakota 

 type is quite recent, for the Teton claim that formerly 

 the entire skins of young antelope, deer, and even birds 

 and beavers were used as smoking bags. Some ex- 

 amples of such bags have been collected and are quite 

 frequent in the ceremonial outfits of the Blackfoot. 

 Again, the collections from many tribes contain bags 

 made from the whole skins of unborn buffalo and deer, 

 used for gathering berries and storing dried food, from 

 which it is clear that a general type of seamless bag was 

 once widely used. All this raises the question as to 

 whether the introduction of metal cutting and sewing 

 implements during the historic period may not have 

 influenced the development of these long, rectangular 

 fringed pipe bags. 



The strike-a-light pouch often made of modern 

 commercial leather is common to the Wind River 

 Shoshone, Ute, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Dakota, Gros 

 Ventre, and Assiniboine (Fig. 25). Among the Ara- 

 paho and Gros Ventre we also find a large pouch of 

 similar designs. Again, the Northern Shoshone and 

 Blackfoot are not included, neither are these pouches 

 frequent among the Kiowa and Comanche. 



