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30 entire lower edge of the stripes. On the back the scalp locks are found only along the shoulder strips. The lower half of the shirt is colored brown. This shirt is slipped over the head the arms thrust through the sleeves and it is on, it is a less fitting garment as it is not belted at all and is run over the leggins and belt sustaining them. The leggins are thirty one and a half inches long, wide at the upper edge, and brought down like a leg of a pair of trousers. at the bottom which is fringed with buckskin, and ?mounted? with beads. Along the outer edge of the leg is a narrow strip of quill work of the same colors as the quills upon the shirt, but surrounded with a border of beads of blue, yellow and red. This leggin is made by folding over a piece of skin and sewing it along the edges, which above the knees is ? into flaps, and cut into a fringe. below this fringe of buckskin is ? of scalp locks secured to a piece of buckskin by being ? with sinew, and this is then covered with a ?mapping? of white porcupine quills. In the illustration we have not attempted to put the scalp locks as close together as they were on the original to avoid crowding. The lower part of the leg is worked with beads, and ?narrow band? of black. In every instance the quill work with the beads is on a separate piece of buckskin and sewed to the shirt or leggins. The belt is a strip of buckskin about one and a half inches wide and thirty six inches long the ends are finished by tabs of buckskin and ornamented with beads. this belt was worn to retain the leggins, the long ends of the leggin were passed through the belt one within the other without and when drawn as sufficiently far was tied. "Spotted Tail" as a man was well built of large frame, and at all times a friend of the white men. The head chief of the Brulé Dakotans, he was annoyed in 1867 by a band of his people deserting to join the Cheyenne, who were at that time at bitter war with the United States. about twenty lodges left one night, and the next morning he made after them and captured all, killing the prisoners and confiscating all their plunder; he was a chief of action and a general of the same stamp as "Chief Joseph" the Nez Perce. When "Spotted Tail" was about twenty years of age he was one day met by a chief who was jealous of him because the later had made advances to a squaw whom the chief considered as his exclusively, and upon the demand being made on him to renounce her the lad drew his knife and a duel ensued in which the chief was killed, and Spotted Tail at once rose to the eminence of a chief, succeeding as is the custom the one he had vanquished. In 1876