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(unclear), a strip of dressed buffalo hide in beads of (unclear) color, small, and notably the Ogalalla. (Nucapapa?) Cheyenne and other Dakotas, use as a ground, or filling the white bead and the designs are marked in colors. The blanket in an illustration is one owned by Gen. Stolie, and is a specimen from Standing Rock, S. Dakota. The blanket it self is a dark indigo blue with marginal lines of white & red these marginal lines are about one inch wide, and at the top and bottom edge are red. (Unclear) the middle is the strip of bead work, sewed to the blanket with deer sinew. The ground is white and at intervals more or less regular in (unclear) (might?) in the colored beads. The first is a rectangular design composed of five bars. green interspersed with four bars of red, white merge in a perpendicular bar of red. adjoining this is one of yellow, then one of deep blue, and a run of red triangles completes this figure. of these there are five in the strip; then two, and half of this one central. Between the rectangular figures are (disks?) of beads four and a half inches in diameter; with a central cross of two red (the (unclear)) and two blue arms on a field of white. This blanket is made by sewing together two smaller ones and as will be seen the greatest dimension is the width. In cold weather, and when courting, the man envelopes himself in his blanket head and all leaving only a small aperture through which to look. The fiction, alleged to be held by the (unclear). that when his head is covered his whole body is out of sight applies to the indian with men (unclear) when engaged in courting an indian wrapped in his blanket is supposed to be out of sight and completely hidden. Enveloped in his blanket a "buck" will sit with his sweet heart any where in the open camp and by indian etiquette the couple is not observed. they are never molested. These lines and notes are incident to the (unclear) of the blanket and have no connection with the indian (unclear) X The reader will understand this seeming contradiction.