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18 The Ojibway of today has laid aside altogether, his primitive dress, and wears white mans clothes . it is true in a some what grotesque fashion still they are white males, and without the pall of this ?.

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Chief Gall, a Dakota chief, wore a dress that is a modification of the original indian and the white mans costume, it consists of the leggins, and moccasins to which is added the coat, which with this indian is a shirt made like the white mans in style, but still indian, in being made of skin. about his neck he wears a string of beads, and a shell and the conventional neck tie of a white man to which are added a large case suspended from his neck. Here the white man's dress stopped and he was again indian, In that his hair was plaited. and adorned with strips of skin, and surmounting the crown of his head was the war eagle feather indicating his rank as a chief, and denoting the fact of his having taken scalps. The leggins are made of skin, with a fringe along the outer seam. The coat is fashioned like a loose Jacket of a white man tied with a leather thong and having a rolling collar, and cuffs of crossed out - otter skin, with a buckskin fringe along all the seams, and edges of the collar. The indians are lavish in this use of costly rus, Ermine & Otte with Beaver & Mink are about the only skins they use for decorating their bodies or dress. Chief Gall was a fine stalwart specimen of the Dakota studs, he weighed about two hundred and had an erect proud carriage. One of the finest specimens of mankind we ever saw was, Medicine Crow. a Dakotan (Sioux) of the Crows in Montana. It was August, and as he was in his summer dress there were no useless garments to hide the symmetry of his figure. The costume consisted of moccasins, a "breech clout", and ornaments in his hair and upon the arms and legs. His entire body was painted with ? greens and upon the shoulders, thighs, arms, legs and trunk, were white impressions of a spread hand. made by