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28 [[crossed out: Through the courtesy of Messrs Walter C. J. Edward F. ? are formatted to show give a drawing of ]]The suit worn by the crossed out: celebrated chief Spotted Tail. it is one of the (dramatic?) shirts crossed out: and leggings known as a scalp shirt and is highly prized as a trophy by the indian as well as the white man. On this suit are five hundred and thirty nine 539 scalp locks which are supposed to represent as many indians killed by the wearer. The shirt is made of two antelope skins dress in the usual fashion. These are sewed together along the top edge leaving a hole for the head to pass through, and to the sides are sewed sleeves made of buckskin. At the lower edge of the shirt is cut in tabs, and the hair left on it to make a fringe. the short tail of the animal is also partially left as an ornament. The long tails, or tabs at the sides, are the parts of the skin of the antelope which covered the flanks and legs. The indians are not given to studying fashion plates, so they just take the articles as they come most readily to hand, and use them up. Covering the shoulders and passing down in front and behind are strips of buckskin. elaborately ornamented with woven? porcupine quills. These stripes are a trifle wider on the shirt than on the sleeve. they are wrought in blue, red, yellow, green, carmine and white quills. White ones predominate, and the figures are of the same colors. about the edges of these stripes are rows of beads in green, blue, red & yellow color. The same colors prevail on the sleeves as on the shoulder stripe. On the breast and back is a tab of buckskin ornamented with a fringe of the same and blue and yellow quills. On the shoulder strips and sleeve the quills are sewn? in a diagonal and are so ingeniously arranged that the colors of certain diagonals are alternated while others are uniform in color. At the edge of the sleeve is a narrow edge of beads of torquois blue, Prussian blue and yellow. Upon the upper half of the shirt, are drawn in color: brown for the stems and red for the ? a number of calumets, two on each side of the tab, in front and behind, with four below it and four more are found outside of the shoulder strips, front and back. The significance of these calumets, we have not yet clearly determined. They may and we think must likely do mean so many councils attended by the chief, in which peace was the outcome. The ground of the upper half of the shirt is blue, as is also the sleeve. The quill ornament on the sleeve is only found on the front. the back has no quill work. Fringing the quill stripes are the scalp locks, set one quarter of an inch apart along the