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their soft doeskin shawls are spread, and there sit two Sioux maidens amid their fineries-variously colored porcupine quills for embro

ere, into the nunnery of the woods, behind a veil of thick foliage. Thus she is expected to develop her womanly qualities. In meditation and solitude,

rowns her glossy head with a wreath of wild flowers, and they dance wit

rd there appears a distant canoe, a mere speck, no

of the paddles!

a trout upon the wate

yet I would like to know who they a

wiftly, with two young men p

nced or woven garlands, bending over their embroidery in perfect silence. Surely they wo

lift a buck deer from the canoe-not a mark upon it, save for the bullet wound; the deer looks as if it we

ectedly upon the maidens' retreat! They pause for an instant in mute apology, bu

age. She may receive young men, but not in public or in a social way, for such is no

nly in order to give. Winona has learned to prepare skins, to remove the hair and tan the skin of a deer so that it may be made into moccasins within three days. She has a bone tool f

of clothing for her male relatives, or for any who are not well provided. She loves to see her brother the be

implicity. Her doeskin gown has wide, flowing sleeves; the ne

ys she used to do it in one plait wound around with wampum. Her ornaments, sparingly worn, are beads, elks' teeth, and a touch of red paint. No feathers are worn by the wo

ved. The woman must never raise her knees or cross her feet when seate

ive ways, there is no lack of mirth and rela

et the peculiar, resonant sound that the beaver makes with her large, flat tail upon the surface of the water. S

nd a half to half an inch in diameter. Some of them are artistically made, with heads of bone and horn, so that it is remarkable to what a distance they may be made to slide over the ground. In the feminine game of ba

t is to throw it in such a way as to catch one or more hoofs on the point of the awl, a feat which requires no little dexterity. Anot

vities of that season. The young men go about usually in pairs, and the maidens do likewise. They may meet by chance at any time of day, in the woods or at the spring, but oftenest seek to do so after

rovides himself with the plaintive flute and plays the simple cadences of his people, while his person is completely covered with his fine robe, so that he cannot

sten. For a whole year he has been compelled at intervals to repeat the story of his love. Through the

ng wedding. Provisions and delicacies of all kinds are laid aside for a feast. Matosapa's sisters and his girl cousins are told of the a

clothing, collected from all her clan, which she afterward distributes among her new relati