PART I. THE HONORS
COUP LIST OR STANDARDS OF HONORABLE EXPLOIT.
These exploits are intended to distinguish those who are first-class in their department, and those who are so good that they may be considered in the record-making class. They may be called Honors and High Honors, but the Plains Indians speak of their exploits as Coup (prounonced coo) and Grand Coup. The Sioux, I am informed, use the French word coup, but call them “ Jus-tee-na coo” and “ Tonka coo,” the “Little Deed,” and the “Big Deed.”
Sometimes they are called Feathers and High Feath- ers. In the Sons-of-Daniel-Boone Camps, founded by Mr. Dan Beard, they are called ‘‘Notches” and ‘“'Topnotches”’ on the gun stock. , The decoration for a Coup or Honor is a Pond-eagle feather for the war-bonnet, or a wampum medal for the coat, —or both.
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