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34 procurable, a strip of dressed buffalo hide crossed out: upon this is  ? in beads of various color, Some and notably the Ogalalla, Hucapapa, Cheyenne, & other Dakotas. use a ground or filling the white bead and crossed out - the designs are marked in colors. The blanket in our illustration is one owned by Mr. Stolie, and is a specimen from Standing Rock S. Dakota. The blanket it self is a dark indigo blue with marginal lines of white & red these marginal lines are about one inch wide and at the tip and bottom edges are red. ☉ Near the middle is the strip of bead work sewed to the blanket with deer sinew. The ground is white and at intervals more or less regular on devices ? wrought? in the colored beads. The first is a rectangular device comprised of five bars, green interspersed with four bars of red, which merge in a perpendicular bar of red. adjoining this is one of yellow, then one of deep blue, and a row of red triangles completes this figure. of these there are five on the strip; we show two, and half of this central one Between the rectangular figure, are disks of ? four and a half inches in diameter, with a central cross of two red (the ?) and two blue arms. on a field of white. This blanket is made by sewing together two smaller ones and as will be seen the the greatest dimension is the width.(X) In cold weather, and when courting, the indian envelopes himself in his blanket head and all leaving only a small aperture through which to look. This fiction, alleged to be held by the ostrich, "that when his head is covered his whole body is out of sight, applies to the indian with new force. when in -gaged in courting an indian wrapped in his blanket is supposed to be out of sight, and completely hidden. Enveloped in his blanket a "buck" will sit with his sweet heart any where in the open camp and by indian etiquette the couple is not observed. they are never ?molested?."

☉ These lines and marks are incident to the weave of the blanket and have no connection with the indian workmanship.

(X) The reader will understand this seeming contradiction.