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woman," declares the old grandmother, as she recei

, both so black as almost to be blue, but the old woma

eyes bright as stars in midwinter!" she exclaims, as she passes

in a twinkle from the evening sta

shall he

n, of course. That is

must prove herself worthy in ord

randmother, "she can at le

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nona has passed the first stag

oaken cradle, the front of which is a richly embroidered buckskin bag, with porcupine quills and deer's hoofs suspended from its

speak with their thousand tongues, that you may know their language forever. I will hang the crad

and becomes at once "nature-born," in accord wi

k; but not until he has received a present of a good pony with a finely painted buffalo-robe. It is usual to confer another name besides that of the "First-born," w

is distributed among the poor and old people. Winona has only just walked, and this fact is also announced with additional gifts. A well-born child is ever before the tribal eye and in the tribal ear, as every little step in

or. It is symbolic, like most Indian names, and implies that

r most noted female ancestors, from the twin sisters of the old story, the maidens who married among the star people of the sky, dow

ments of doeskin to her ankles, adorned with long fringes, embroidered with porcupine quills, and dyed with root dyes in various colors. Her little blanket or robe, with which s

u are a woman like myself. Do always those things t

and the tiny girl would be greatly abashed were it ever

ks. There is a little scraper of elk-horn to scrape raw-hides preparatory to tanning them, another scraper o

the great hide and industriously scrapes away with her tiny instrument. When the mother stops to sharpen her tool, the little woman always sharpens hers also. Perhaps there is water to be fetched in bags made from the dried pericardium of an animal; the