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page number 31 July 11 - Took dinner with the officers of the post upon invitation. I examined the grave of the wife of "Big Ribs" an Sioux chief, who died at the post while the treaty was going on. The body together with all her personal effects were put in a square pine box, 8 feet long, 4 wide and 3 deep. This was elevated on four posts some 8 or 10 feet from the ground, and a red blanket was nailed on it. They had killed her two ponies and nailed their heads to the eastern posts and their tails to the western. Although I could not see into the box I am told that the top is uncovered to enable the spirit to wing its way to the