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322 skin and ornamented with two gray feathers.. the quill of the feather is bent in a circle and lowered to the shaft of the feather with sinews. and through the loop so formed is passed the end of a strip of buckskin by which the feather is tied to the head. The end of the handle is prolonged and the slit in the skin. is attached a blue and red ribon and a piece of horse hide carrying white hair. with red beads upon it. This is also a specimen owned by a member of Sitting Bulls band..

  The ancient Ojibway are the modern Dakota. were workers in stone and wrought war clubs and axes by the method.  pounding.  Two handsome specimens of this work are owned by [?] Aishton. and were by him procured within a recent date in Evanston Illinois.   The War Axe is a specimen of green porphery [sic] with red spots the edge and [?]   have  been rubbed quite smooth. and are almost polished. while the end is rough and as it seems left unfinished.  The exact object for this it is difficult to determine.  unless it is that the handle by which it was swung was attached at the end. and that being so we are of opinion  that. the axe was set in wood. and the rough end so made to give it additional. friction to hold it in the handle.  the part projecting being polished and finished    The second specimen from the same collection and region is rough throughout and made of dark trap rock.  This is used as it would seem entirely to strike with, having no cutting edge and is a good deal like the head made for the Dakota war club except. that the Dakota stone  is pointed while this of the Ojibway is  cylindrical and rounded on the ends. and from the fact that there is no groove or definite line. of union for a handle it would seem that the handle was attached by a [?] bent round the head at any place.  the fancy of the indian might dictate . Such stone implements or weapons are from an age long since past the present [?] of Ojibway know nothing of their manufacture. and have never made them. even the old men know nothing of the art.  Stone arrows and spear heads are or were to within a recent period made by the Ojibway. but it is certain that the art of making. Stone axes and clubs must have been practiced. by them. not very long since as these specimens were found. in turning over the ground in plowing. only a few inches beneath the surface and Dr. W. A. Phillips. informs the writer that he has collected pounding stones in a goody number.