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Ojibway curved knife used in making bowls. Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll (Haupt del) length of blade 4 1/3 inches

  "         Handle           3 ½      '
  "   " head (from mane) 3       "

The Ojibway or their ancestors of old no doubt used the same methods for we find (six unclear words in parentheses) that some of these new club-heads were smooth and finished others left rough. ? said that the harder kinds of rock were used for making war clubs and this is true with a few exceptions as we believe. in another place we show a war club owned by one of Sitting Bull's band made of the red pipe stone. In the collection of Lieutenant Geo H. [[?Ciche?] is a war club made from the horn of the "Big Horn Sheep."