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cealed by long back locks of disheveled hair, grieved, starving & fatigued -- As I stood on the highest point of the prarie I observed at the farthest teepees two objects, apparently bipeds with enormous heads, dodgeing about & "progressing" thro' the villages, their nearer approach & constant motion evinced by the more distinct twinkling of the bells suspends about their persons. Viewed nearer, they were Indians with the skins of the head of the buffalo with the horns attached, placed upon their shoulders & used as a mask their bodies naked to the breech-cloth painted in stripes with pendant ornament of a skunk tail tied