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22nd.. December Satturday 1804—
worm. a
number of Squars & men Dressed in Squars
Clothes[40]
Came with Corn to
Sell to the men for little things,
We precured two horns of the animale
the french Call the
The Mandans Indians Call this Sheep Ar-Sar-ta it is about
the Size of a large Deer, or Small Elk, its Horns Come out
and wind around the head like the horn of a Ram and the
tecture (texture) not unlike it much larger and thicker, perticelarly
that part with which they but[t] or outer part which
is [blank in MS.] inchs thick, the length of those horns,
which we have is [blank in MS.]
Reference
is here made to a singular class of men who have been found by
travellers
and explorers among most of the Southern and Western tribes; they are
commonly called "berdashes" (a corruption of Fr. bardache). They assumed feminine
garb and occupations, for the entire span of life, and were regarded with
the
utmost contempt by their tribesmen. For accounts of this strange
custom, see
Lafitau's Mœurs des sauvages, i,
pp. 52, 53; Long's Expedition, i, p. 129; Carr's
Mounds
of Miss. Valley, p. 33; Catlin's N. Amer. Indians,
ii, pp. 214, 215; Henry's
Journal, i, pp. 53,
163–165; and Jes. Relations, Iix, p. 129.—
Ed.
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