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The Dakota Hair comb is where the (nature?) is (unclear) an ornate specimen but it is really much less trouble to the squaw to purchase a hair comb from a trader than manufacture one. In "the good old days" the squaw made combs of the skin of the porcupine. "Erethizon dorsatum" C. A piece of the skin from which the barbed quills had been removed, but to which the bristles were attached, is taken and attached to a rod ornamented with beads. In this specimen the bristle portion is seven and a quarter inches long, secured to a rod thirteen inches long and an half an inch in diameter. The entire rod is (unclear) in the exposed portions above and below with leather string or sinew and wound about the rod. The color of the beads varise in this specimen they are of all the colors of the rain bow put on in every conceivable form. There is no pattern (worked?) out, and the preponderance of color is white The stick or rod is first covered with buckskin and the beads wrapped on. The skin bearing the quills is sewed on the rod At the tip of the rod is a tassle of buckskin secured with porcupine quills dyed red. The end of the tassle is terminated with tin (unclear) carrying horsehair dyed green. At the bottom is a a tassle composed of four strands of buckskin wrapped with quills dyed red and green. at the end of each strand is a (unclear) of tin (unclear) carrying horsehair dyed green. The comb of the Ojibway is much more ornate. This specimen was found by the writer at (unclear) Lake Michigan and is merely the tip of the