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entire brown edge of the strips. On the back, the scalp locks, are formed only along the shoulder stripe.The lower half of the shirt is colored brown. This shirt is slipped over the head the arms thrust through the sleeves and it is on, it is a loose fitting garment as it is not belted at all and is runs over the leggins and belt sustaining them.

The leggins are thirty one and a half inches long, wide at the upper edge and ? down like a leg of a pair of trousers, at the bottom which is fringed with buckskin, and ornamented with leather. Along the outer edge of the leg is a narrow strip of quill nubs? of the same colors as the quills upon the shirt, but surrounded with a border of beads of blue, yellow, and red. The leggin is made by folding over a piece of skin and sewing it along the edges, which above the knees, is ? into flaps, and cut into a fringe, below the fringe of buckskin is one of scalp locks, secured to a piece of buckskin crossed out - and then by being wipped? with sinew, and this is then ? with a massing of white porcupine quills. In the illustrations we have not attempted to put the scalp locks as clustered together as they were on the original to avoid crowding. The lower part of the leg is ? with broad, and narrow band of black. In every instance the quill meets with the beads is on a separate piece of buckskin and sewed to the shirt or leggins.

The belt, is a strip of buckskin about one and a half inches and thirty six inches long the ends are finished by tabs of buckskin, and ornamented with beads. this belt was run to retain the leggins, the long ends of each of the leggin were passed through the belt, and ? the other without and when drawn as sufficiently for use tied. crossed out words crossed out words. "Spotted Tail" as a man was well built of large frame and at all times a friend of the white man. As head chief of the Brule' Dakotans he was annoyed in 1867 by a band of his people deserting to join the Cheyenne, who were at that time at bitter war with the United States, about twenty lodges left night, and the next morning he ? after them and captured all. killing the prisoners and confiscating all their plunder he was a chief of action and a general, of the same stamp as "Chief Joseph"the nez Perce. When "Spotted Tail." was about twenty years of age he was one day met by a chief who was jealous of crossed out - Spotted Tail inserted - him because the later has made advances to a squaw whom the chief considered as his exclusively, and afore the demand being made, on him to renounce her the lad drew his knife and a duel ensued in which the chief was killed, and Spotted Tail at once rose to the eminence of a chief, succeeding as is the custom the one he had vanquished.