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… Year, White-buffalo Year, Many-scalps Year and so on. When a decision was reached the Keeper of the Winter-count made a pictograph in proper place on the Painted Robe, and so this record was kept.
In our Tribes we select the name by which each Camp- out is likely to be remembered, and enter that in the Tally-book.
Thus we have: Camp-nothing-but-rain, Camp Bully-fun, Camp-robin’s-nest-on-the-teepee, etc.
HEAD-BAND
Each brave needs a head-band. This holds his feathers as they are won, and his scalp is fastened to it behind. It consists of a strip of soft leather, long enough to go around the head and overlap by two inches; it is fastened at the rear, with a lace through the four holes, like the lace of machine belting. A bead pattern ornaments the front and it may be finished at each side in some broader design. It is the founda- tion for the war-bonnet and has places for twenty-four feathers (two eagle tails).
The feathers are made of white Pond-eagle! quill feathers, the tip dyed dark brown or black; a leather loop is lashed to the quill end of each to fasten it on to _ the head-band. Each feather stands for an exploit ..text pokračuje 1 Pond-eagle — white goose feathers made up in imitation of eagle feathers.
