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Things to Know and Do 339 For those who wish to complete its sumptuousness a rush or grass mat may be added. (See Camp Loom.) After long use the willows get bent, to prevent this the bed should be turned over every few days. Woodcxaft Paint! Paints for ornamenting robes are mixed with water. (Clark: " Sign Language.") „ . Paints for the body are mixed with grease or tallow from some animal. j..,„kia Paints for lodges, totem poles, etc., were made durable bv slowly melting or mixing into the grease enough rosm to make it stickv. This formed their paint oU. Red Before the Indian had the w> -te man s vermilion he used a certain stiff yeUow clay (brick clay) which, whenburnt, turned dull red— i. e., brick color. This he powdered and mixed with the grease oil. . , , In some parts of the country there are springs strongly im- pregnated with iron. A log of wood dug out of this-or fail- ing that an armful of chips long soaked in it-when takenout, dried, and burnt yielded ashes of a beautiful rosy color. These worked up into a very pretty red. . y,llmv. Yellow clav or ochres are common m clay regions and furnish a dull yellow. Clark says that the flower of 1^ prairie goWenrod yiekU a good yeUow; also the bnght yelkw ZubI Eaglesi 23 Am. Rep- B.A.E. moss one sees on the trunks of pine trees in the Rockies. Wh«i dried and powdered thb makes a sort of chrome yellow, and is also used as a dye. "The Sioux use buU-berries" for yeUow. (Clark.)