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54 Ojibway indian who had slighted his mistress left him and went into a remote country to cut wood as a wood chopper. One day he was taken with a great giddiness, and faintness and had to sit down on a log when his nose began to bleed and he knew then that the abandoned squaw was ? a "Gush kib idge.e.gun." and he said to his companion that he must go to her or he should die, he went married her, and was cured.

This love charm is a rare object in collections, the writer has seen only two such one in his own collection the other owned by Mr. Gustav Beauleau. :this later was wrapped in birch bark and had instead of the ring a small wood image of a man and a woman. then ? placed heart to heart, and bound up with the other elements of the charm. In the charm in the authors collection the man and woman are represented by two small pouches of buckskin cut square and beaded on the edges In both these pouches is a mixture composed of vermillion, a bit of the tongue and heart of a dead body, that has been dug up by the medicine man. these are pounded to powder and mixed with fragments of a ? stone: "Gypsums" in this case. In one of these pouches is a rare medicine: the tip of the leaf of a thime herb. "sage.digorm". which grows in obscure places. The two small pouches are placed one on each side of a tin ring and then are wrapped up in a bit of cloth. and three pieces of ribon and finally a strip of bead work and the whole deposited in a small pouch made of buckskin. fringed at the edges. and ornamented with a line of garnet beads and at the bottom is a cross of light blue beads. The pouch is an ingenious structure and is so made that the elongated side cut into strips and passed through a ? slit holds the pouch shut or closed, and in this condition it may be ?worn? without danger of losing the contents which would of course be fatal to the charm. The Dakotas seek to win the love of the maiden from motives of policy as she is apt to be more faithful of course to obtain her this is not at all essential he may if he has pennies enough buy her, but afterwards she might elope with a man she prefers. And there are cases on record where an old chief being rich in ponies bought more children for wives. The Ojibway resorts to the Love charm if he fails to secure the coveted prize. Love making in an indian camp is a very permissive matter. there is no tie and simply as a rule barter between the father of the girls and the would be husband. the result is elopements are not infrequent