ss,
necklace, belt, robe, medicine-bag, tobacco sack, pipe, quiver, bow,
knife, lance, shield, tomahawk and war-club. And as he proudly stood
erect, waiting, he made a splendid sight.

His shirt was mountain-sheep skins, one before, one behind, sewed
together at their edges. They were embroidered with porcupine quills
brightly dyed, and fringed with the black scalp-locks of the enemies
whom he had slain in combat, and tasseled with ermine tails. They were
pictured with his deeds, painted in sign language.

The leggins were of finely dressed deer-skin, worked with the porcupine
quills, fringed with the scalp-locks, and fitting tightly from
moccasins to thighs.

The moccasins were of buck-skin, armored with the dyed quills.

The head-dress was a crest of two polished buffalo horns set in a thick
mat of ermine, from which fell clear to his heels a ridgy tail of
countless eagle plumes also set in the ermine fur.

The necklace was of fifty grizzly-bear claws, strung from otter skin.

The belt was of tanned buck-skin, supporting tomahawk and broad-bladed
scalping knife with elk-horn haft.

The robe slung from his shoulders like a Roman toga was the softened
hide of a young buffalo bull worn fur side in; and on the white skin
side all the battles of his life had been painted.

The medicine-bag was a beaver skin, ornamented with hawk-bills and
ermine. He held it in his right hand.

His tobacco sack was of otter skin decorated with porcupine quills. In
it were dried red-willow bark, flint and steel, and tinder.

His pipe was of curiously carved red pipe-stone from the peace quarries
in present Minnesota. The stem was ash, three feet long, wound with
porcupine quills to form pictures of men and animals; decorated with
wood-peckers' skins and heads, and the hair of the white buffalo's
tail. It was half painted red, and notched for the years of his life.

His quiver was of panther skin and filled with arrows, flint pointed
and steel pointed, and some bloody.

His bow was of strips of elk-horn polished white, cemented with glue of
buffalo hoof, and backed with deer sinews to give it spring. Three
months had been required to make it. There was none better.

His lance had a deadly two-edge steel blade, stained with the dried
blood of Sioux and Arikaree and Cheyenne and Assiniboin. The six-foot
ashen shaft was strung with eagle feathers.

His shield was the hide from a buffalo's neck, hardened with hoof glue.