.MTA3Mw.NzI1ODM

These scaffolds are used for drying maize &c and during hot nights for sleeping. of savage license. Here sits the squaw (, or taue chew? (wife) ("Squaw" not being a Sacotah 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 list 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