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Dakota. (Sioux. Match pouch. (Haupt Coll & del) length 5½ inches width 2 5/8 " tin cones 7/8 "

Dakota (Sioux) Match.pouch (Haupt coll. & del) length 5 ¼ inches width at top 2 3/4 "

  "     "  bottom 3½ "

The other typical forms of match pouches are rectangular and have a much shortened flap: the forms with the long flap is rare and used by dignitaries. The last specimen is from the Brulé agency. and consists of a buckskin pouch of rectangular form the lower edge is elongated at the outer edge into a tail the entire face of the pouch under the flap is covered with beads an unusual circumstance as they are usually not beaded under the flap. The flap is shut and like the face beaded the beads being put on in [?] and it would seem that in ornamenting this pouch the squaw wished to use up all the odds and ends at hand as the colors are jumbled together without any regularity at all. blue, yellow, red. White, black and garnet beads put on as if they had been rained out of a sieve. The linen edge of the pouch is finished with a fringe of tin cones suspended to strips of buckskin at the point of the pouch are four cones of tin bearing horse hair dyed red. In the rear is a thong to secure the pouch to the belt. This is a more modern make. The second match pouch of Dakota fabrication is much older and was procured in 1881 but was made some years prior to that date: It is of thin raw hide of a rectangular outline with a square lower edge and a rounded flap. In the other specimens the flap is covered with beads in this one it is only partially so a line of bead runs round the margin composed of triangles of dark blue, light blue, white and red beads. and the edge of the flap is fringed with cones of tin three quarters of an inch long and three sixteenths in diameter. The fringe is made by passing a strip of buckskin through a slit in the edge and tying a knot in the ends nd pounding on a tin cone. In the center the flap has no beads but a small hole is made through which to pass a thong to tie the flap down. The face of he pouch is covered with a ground of dark blue beads. The nondescript figure in the center is on either side red with a patch of turquoise blue in the centre. The two ? figures being of the same colors.