to add strength and perhaps as an ornament.  These were of middling size, denoting feet of small size.  The shape of the moccasins differs but little from the deer-skin moccasins worn by the Northern Indians.  The knapsack was of wove or knit bark, with a deep, strong border around the top, and was about the size of knapsacks used by soldiers.  The workmanship of it was neat, and such as would do credit as a fabric, to a manufacturer of the present day.  The reticule was also made of knit or wove bark.  The shape was much like a horseman’s valise, opening its whole length on the top.  On the side of the opening and a few inches from it, were two rows of hoops, one row on each side.  Two cords were fastened to one end of the reticule at the top, which passed through the loop on one side and then on the other side, the whole length, by which it was laced up and secured.  The edges of the top of the reticule were strengthened with deep fancy borders.  The articles contained in the knapsack and reticule were quite numerous, and are as follows:  one head cap, made of wove or knit bark, without any border, and of the shape of the plainest night cap; seven head-dresses made of the quills of large birds, and put together somewhat in the same way that feather fans are made, except that the pipes of the quills are not drawn to a point, but are spread out in straight lines with the top.  This was done by perforating the pipe of the quill in two places and running two cords through these holes, and then winding around the quills and the cord, fine thread, to fasten each quill in the place designed for it.  These cords extended some length beyond the quills on each side, so that on placing the feathers erect on the head, the cords could be tied together at the back of the head.  This would enable the wearer to present a beautiful display of feathers standing erect and extending a distance above the head, and entirely surrounding it.  These were most splendid head dresses, and would be a magnificent ornament to the head of a female at the present day,—­several hundred strings of beads; these consisted of very hard brown seed smaller than hemp seed, in each of which a small hole had been made, and through this hole a small three corded thread, similar in appearance and texture to seine twine; these were tied up in bunches, as a merchant ties up coral beads when he exposes them for sale.  The red hoofs of fawns, on a string supposed to be worn around the neck as a necklace.  These hoofs were about twenty in number, and may have been emblematic of Innocence; the claw of an eagle, with a hole made in it, through which a cord was passed, so that it could be worn pendent from the neck; the jaw of a bear designed to be worn in the same manner as the eagle’s claw, and supplied with a cord to suspend it around the neck; two rattlesnake-skins, one of these had fourteen rattles upon it, these were neatly folded up; some vegetable colors done up in leaves; a small bunch of deer sinews, resembling cat-gut in appearance;