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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.

• 462 Foot War-party in Council, Mandan.

• 463 Camanche War-party—the Chief discovering the
  enemy, and urging on his men.

• 464 Religious Ceremony, Sioux—voluntary torture—with
  splints through his flesh, and his body hanging to a
  pole—with his medicine bag in his hand, he looks at
  the sun from its rising to its setting.

• 465 Dragoons on the march, and a band of Buffalo breaking
  through their ranks.

• 466 Prairie Dog Village.

• 467 "Smoking horses,"—a curious custom of the Sacs and
  Foxes—Foxes, going to war, come to the Sacs to
  beg for horses; they sit in a circle and smoke,
  and the young men ride around them, and cut their
  shoulders with their whips until the blood runs,
  then present a horse.

• 468 Mandans attacking a party of Riccarees, whom they
  had driven into a ravine, near the Mandan village.

• 469 Chippeways making the portage around the Falls of
  St. Anthony, with two hundred bark canoes, in
  1835.

• 470 Camanches moving, and Dog Fight—dogs as well as
  horses drag the lodge poles with packs upon them.

• 471 White Wolves attacking a Bull Buffalo.

• 472 do. do. a parley.

• 473 Mandan Lodge, interior—Chief sits smoking his pipe,
  and family group about the fire, reclining on robes
  and rush mats.

• 474 Feats of horsemanship—Camanches throwing themselves
  on the side of the horse, while at full speed,
  to evade their enemies' arrows.

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• 475 Camanche War-party meeting the Dragoons, and
  one of their bravest men advancing to shake hands
  with Col. Dodge, with a piece of white buffalo
  skin on the point of his lance.

• 476 An Indian Wedding, Assinneboin.

• 477 Crow at his toileffe.

• 478 Crow Lodge, of twenty-five buffalo skins, beautifully
  ornamented; this splendid lodge, with all its poles
  and furniture, was brought from the foot of the
  Rocky Mountains.

• 479 Pawnee Lodge, thatched with prairie grass.

• 480 Camanche Lodge, of buffalo skins.

• 481 Dog Feast, Sioux, given to Mr. Sanford, (Indian
  Agent) Mr. Chouteau, Mr. McKenzie, and myself,
  in a Sioux Village, 1400 miles above St. Louis,
  1833: the only food was dog's meat, and this is
  the highest Lonor they can confer on a stranger.

• 482 An Indian Council, Sioux.

• 483 Camanche War-party.

• 484 War Parade of the Crows, at the Minatarres' Village.

• 485 Scalping, Sioux.

• 486 Scalping, Mandans—conqueror conquered.

• 487 Medicine Man (Blackfoot)—with the skin of the yellow
  bear, medicine rattle and spear in his hand,
  endeavoring to cure a dying man by a charm.

• 488 Wild Horses at play, Texas.

• 489 Throwing the Laso.

• 490 Breaking down the Wild Horse.