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14 of savage license. These scaffolds are used for drying maize &c and during hot nights for sleeping. Here sits the squaw (, or tawechew (wife) "Squaw" not being a Dacotah word,) sewing mocassins or dressing a child's hair while, she gossips to her fellow crossed out - squaw & watches the papoose which hangs from the roof above. On the top of the shed are often laid the canoes of birch-bark & about them are seen the male children with their mimic bows & arrows, hunt, & war dance, & not unusually "my lord" & his friends ascend to overlook their own & their neighbors residences & occupations. Within, the pipe is passed around while the war story, legend or jest is told, or jest is told, or some "medicine" or mystery matter discussed. One or two are engaged in making a pipe? or a unknown or feathering an