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Flute, Dakota (Sioux) owned by "Johnny Yellow Wolfe" length 27 inches width 1 3/4 " Length of head 8 inches
" of horns 4 "
(Walsh Coll. Haupt del.)
This flute of Dakota manufacture also, and we should remark that the Ojibway do not make flutes nor any musical instrument of any kind except the drum. If they ever did the art is now lost. This is a flute or probably more properly a pipe as it has no keys only the reed. The wood is like the others of red cedar. The music produced is modified by a softer ? current of air. The head is that of the deer and the antlers are cut from the same piece as the top of the head. and are excellently made. the whole work is well executed and would do great credit to a Yankee whittler or a ? prisoner. The throat is adorned by a strip of buckskin and a tuft of red feathers. This specimen is also owned by Rev J H. Walsh. and not owned and the presumption is was made by 'Johnny Yellow Wolf' who lived at the Rose Bud Agency S. Dakota. All of their specimens are well made the finish is good and smooth and is accomplished by scraping with a knife or piece of hand metal. ? as is sometimes the case a squaw will fall in love with a "buck" and it does not follow at all that he must be a young man. she will work for and present to him a pair of elaborately beaded moccasins, not only are they beaded on the upper, but the sole is also covered with beads. and if anything more gorgeously than the