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"Gush kib idge.e.gun." Ojibway Love Charm, and ingredients. Haupt coll & del.

pouch, length 4 inches.

          width        1½ "
           tab.   length 2 ½"
                   width  1¼  "
           bead strip  8½  "
                  width  ½   "
         ring. diameter 7/8  "
            thickness ?/16.  "
        bags.  length    1.  "
                  width   6/16,  "

The Ojibway indian is unlike his neighbor deficient in music, he has no love flutes or other instruments with which the entice his sweetheart from the parental roof. He must pay his addresses without music, but if to has not the aid of the muses, he has that of the Manito which he can invoke, which is now peaceful. Should it transpire that the Ojibway maiden refuses and rejects her lover, or if the lover sleight his mistress the cure is a simple and the disappointed party procures a piece of the dress or clothing of the offending party and a lock or even a single hair, of the head, with these, the offended party repairs to a medicine man. usually the "Bad Medicine man," and upon making him a sufficient present of ? or anything at hand he will compound a ""Gush kib idge.e.gun." " or Love charm, which if the disappointed party wears on their person it will without fail bring the hard hearted one to their feet. It cannot fail. If a buck is rejected he will get a part of the woman's dress and tie it in the charm where it becomes potent. and she must follow him unless she can secure some of a very rare medicine. which can kill the effect of the charm. It is also potent if the hair of the rejector is tied up with it. In such a case the party from whom the hair has been taken will be siezed with violent head ache and pain in the head and if they do not relent and turn to their lover they will die from the effect. The Ojibway have a wonderful reverence for charms and necromancy. They have implicit faith in the virtue of these Love Charms. On one occasion we