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155 twenty seven inches in length and one and five sixteenths wide by half an inch thick. The decoration of the pipe stem consists of a band of feathers from the head of the Mallard duck. a piece of the skin is taken off with the five green feathers attached this is glued to the stem over the tuft, and tassle of [crossed out: red] horses hair dyed red and over the feathers is tied a green ribon. from this point to the end the stem is wrapped with the plaited porcupine quills ingeniously woven in figures. adjoining the tuft is a band of the quills dyed carmine. succeeded by a narrow band of yellow and one of green. they occupy about a fourth of the space covered with quills. In the center is a wide space filled with white quills in which are [?] figures in green and yellow. The two rectangular figures have [crossed out: yellow] red quills in the center surrounded by yellow and a border of green. The mouth end of the stem is finished as the lower end except that the ribon in two strands is red. Accompanying this pipe is "Tobacco Bag" in this bag both the pipe and tobacco is carried at times though usually upon ceremonies the pipe is carried in the hand and the bag held at the throat accompanies it. The bag is a rectangular buckskin receptical open at the top or small end. which [?part?] is six and a half inches wide the length being twenty and one quarter inches. It would seem that this article is of recent introduction among the indians. Mr Cattin in his work while showing numerous pipes and pouches made of skin of animals no where shows a picture of the buckskin bag ornamented with beads and quills now so unusual among the indians of all nations the Dakota especially devotes much time and care to the making of these bags and it is the rule for each pipe to be accompanied with a tebacco bag of this form. and it seems strange that if [?] it be true that they did not at this time exist Cattin should have over looked them. and yet it seems strange that if they are the introduction of recent times they should have so rapidly reached to all parts of the nations as there is really very little intercourse between the remote branches of the tribes. The specimen accompanying this pipe of "Smoke Maker" is a very handsome piece of work. The mouth of the bag is ornamented with red. turquoise blue. and dark blue beads, and the throat is secured by thong of buckskin [?] with porcupine quills dyed purple. red. [crossed out & yellow] and orange. and terminated with tin cones and whisp of horse hair dyed red. The bottom of the bag is richly ornamented with beads. Let us say Just here the work of the [?genuine?] [?] of a bit of bead work alliged to the indian is proven by the presence or absence of sinew or cotton thread as the means for securing the beads. The indians in their genuine work use sinew. but when they make to sell to "white man" they frequently use thread and when as is some times the case the white man tries his hand at making "Indian [?]" he uses thread also. In this specimen the leads are secured with sinew. The side shown in the drawing is so far a the leads go [?] in squares on the reverse side the pattern is in angles the width of this band is three and three quarter inches. The field is of pale blue beads - In the center is a square of yellow surrounded by a border of dark blue