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The Ojibway of today has laid aside altogether, his primitive dress, and near white mans clothes . it is true in a some what grotesque fashions site they are white males, and without the pale of the sink.

Chief Gall, a Dakota chief, wore a dress that is a modification of the original indian and the white mans costume, it consists of the legging, and moccasins to which is added the coat, which with the indian is a shirt made like the white mans in style, but still indian, in being made of skin. about his neck he has a string of beads, and a shell and the conventional neck tie of a white man to which are added a large case suspended from his neck. Here the white man's dress stopped and he was again indian, In that his hair was plaited. and adorned with strips of skin, and ?, the crown of his head was the war eagle feather indicating his rank as a chief, and denoting the fact of his having taken scalps. Two leggins are made of skin, with a fringe along the outer seam. The coat is fashioned like a loose Jacket of a white man tied with a leather string and having a rolling collar, and cuffs of crossed out - otter skin, with a buckskin fringe along all the seams, and edges of the collar. the indians are lavish about the only skins they use for decorating their bodies or dress. Chief Gall was a fine stalwart specimen of the Dakota sticks, he weighed about two hundred and had an erect frame carriage. One of the finest specimens of mankind had ever saw was, Medicine Crow. a Dakotan (Sioux) of the Crows in Montana. It was August, and as he was in his summer dress there was no useless garments to hide the symmetry of his figure. The costume consisted of successive: a "breech clout", and ornaments in his hair and upon the arms, and legs. His entire body was painted with ? greens and upon the shoulder, thighs, arms, legs and trunk, were white infusions of a spread hand. made of