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crossed out: fall to and make him presents. so that he is soon replenished. The war, or dance dress Knife a Fort Yates Dakota crossed out: is a splendid example of the manner of getting ready for war or the dance

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When we use this term - war and dance, it must be remarked that to the indian mind they are almost synonymous. In the dance, as in war, the indian works himself up into a state of frenzy, and in that state is in the full enjoyment of exhilaration. They are therefore each equally important to the happiness of an indian. Knife's costume is a typical one and represents that worn by all Dakotas, with of course modifications. Upon his head is the war bonnet. this is made of the skin of an animal or a piece of cloth usually however, the skin is used, and the form of it is a skull cap closely fitting the head with a long tail behind, and a greater or less number of feathers and skins hanging from the sides. about the neck is a bit of gay colored silk, and the long deer toe, or plumb stone necklace. about his loins is a belt ornamented with brass disks and a band of otter fur from which are fastened strips of leather strung with sleigh bells. The right arm is decorated with an armlet of beads and a bracelet of metal. and the right hand grasps the war club. In the left hand he carrires the sacred medicine pouch or bag. Each Dakota indian, when he reaches that time in his life when he emerges from youth to manhood, feels it incumbent upon him to become a brave and to do this he must fast, for a number of days, and retire to a lonely spot and fall into a trance, in which state the Great Spirit reveals to him what his especial medicine is to be and also his guardian animal and upon awakening he must procure the medicine and kill and present the skin of the animal, bird or fish, as the case may be, and always carry the medicine in the pouch. This medicine is not as the white man views it a medicine - this term to the indian is mystic and the medicine acts by being held in possession, for it is often the tooth or claw of a bear, or a bone. at other times a piece of glass, or a fragment of rock. The writer in excavating this mound of an (Adagameo?) indian found a nugget of native copper, which was wrapped in buckskin and birch bark, and was the medicine of the unfortunate indian in whose ruined (home?) his bones were found.