INSTALLATION OF SAGAMORE OR SACHEM
These installations are along similar lines, but are more elaborated and impressive. The recipient of the honor stands before the Council. His exploits are described for the benefit of the public. An opportunity is offered to any who would question the record; and it must be now or never. The Medicine Man has the new Sagamore repeat his vow and the law to which he holds. Then completes his installation by placing on his shoulder the Sagamore's robe and on his head the great eagle feather warbonnet; then leads him to a specially prepared seat of honor, where, before he sits down the whole tribe tiles past to shake his hand and greet him in his new title.
HORSEHAIR TUFTS
If, in the new Tribe or Band it is decided to use the horsehair tufts or tokens of good standing, also sometimes called scalps, this is the law: Each, on entering the Tribe, receives in addition to the badge a long tuft of black horsehair that answers as his emblem of good standing. The skin of this should be about one inch across; it is furnished with a cord loop; the hair is as long as possible.
He can lose it only in an important competition, approved by the Council, in which he stakes his tuft against that of some other brave, never a tuft against any other stake. If he loses, he surrenders his tuft to the winner in presence of all the Council and goes without this badge until the Council thinks proper to give him a new one. But he never gets back the old one, that remains the property of the winner for a teepee or other decoration.
The brave without tuft cannot vote or sit in Council, or take part in the competitions. He is dead. Usually the Council revives him very quickly by bestowing a new token,
