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… signed the roll, the Medicine-man gives it to him, saying : —
“This is your scalp. Treasure this as your honor. You may lose it without absolute disgrace, but not without some humiliation.”
He can lose it only in an important competition, approved by the Council, in which he stakes his scalp against that of some other brave. If he loses, he sur- renders his tuft to the winner and goes tuftless, that is, he is dead, until the Council thinks proper to revive him by giving him a new scalp. But he never gets back the old one, which remains the property of the winner for a teepee or other decoration.
A dead brave cannot vote or sit in Council or take part in the competitions.
The member is a brave till he has taken a scalp, after that he is a warrior.
TEEPEES AND TENTS
The Indian teepee has the advantage of picturesque- ness, also of comfort in cold weather, because it admits of an open fire inside. It has the disadvantage-of allow- ing some rain to enter through the smoke-vent in very wet weather. A twelve-foot teepee (needing fourteen poles), big enough for half a dozen boys, can be made for three dollars, plus labor (see “Two Little Savages’’), or it can be bought ready made for about thrice that.
