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Through the courtesy of Parson Walter C. J. Edward F. (unclear) (notes?) are formatted to show give a drawing of (preceding line crossed out) The suit worn by the (celebrated - - crossed out) chief Spotted Tail. it is one of the (dramatic?) shirts (and leggings - crossed out) known as a scalp shirt by the indian as well as the white man. On this (unclear) are five hundred and thirty nine s39 scalp locks which also (suffice?) to represent as many indians killed by the season. The shirt is made of two antelope skins (drawn?) in the usual fashion. These are sewed together along the (unclear) edge leaving a hole for the head to pass through, and to the sides are sewed sleeves made of buckskin. At the lower edge of the shirt is cut in tabs, and the hair left on it to make a fringe. the short tail of the animal is also partially left as an ornament. The long tails, or tabs at the sides, are the parts of the skin of the antelope that covered the flanks and legs. The indians are not given to studying fashion plates, so they just take the articles as they come most readily to hand, and (unclear) them (unclear). Covering the shoulders and passing down in front and behind are strips of buckskin. elaborately ornamented with woven? porcupine quills. These stripe area (unclear) on the shirt than on the sleeve. they are (wrought?) in blue, red, yellow, green, (carmine?) and white quills. White ones predominate, and the figures are of the same colors. (about?) the edge of these stripes are runs of beads in green, blue, red and yellow color. The same colors prevail on the sleeves as on the shoulder stripe. On the breast and back is a tab of buckskin ornamented with a fringe of the same and blue and yellow quills. On the shoulder strips and sleeve the quills are (sewn?) in a diagonal and are so ingeniously arranged that the colors of certain diagonals are alternated while others are uniform in color. At the edge of the sleeve is a narrow edge of beads of torquois blue, Prussian blue and yellow. Upon the upper half of the shirt, are drawn in color: green for the sleeve and red for the (unclear) a number of calumets, two on each side of the tab, in front and behind, with four below it and four more are found outside of the shoulder strips, front and back. The significance of these calumets, we have not yet clearly determined. They may and we think must likely do mean so many councils attended by the chief, in which peace was the outcome. The ground of the upper half of the shirt is blue, as is also the sleeve. The quill ornament on the sleeve is only found on the front. the back has no quill work. Fringing the quill stripes are the scalp locks, set one quarter of an inch apart along the