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23 This medicine pouch carried by Knife is an otter skin. About his knee and again and the ankle are straps with sleighbells. below the knee is a garter made of strips of raw hide. wound with colored porcupine quills. the costume is completed by the moccasins. In this dress or undress, as the reader pleases. In summer the indian would dance and almost die from exhaustion, and heat, crossed out: in winter freeze. Or in winter freeze. The Ojibway Indian from his long associations with the white man has discarded altogether his primitive native dress, and wears the garb of the white man modified by the various ornaments of beads, and ribbon as will be described under the chapter of Dress and ornament. The Dakotas are less civilized, and many of them still retain their original dress. this is simple and consists as is fully illustrated in the drawing of the Suit of “Spotted Tail”.