Some Indian Ways
By these tricks you can make the vent draw the smoke. But after all the main thing is to use only the best and -driest of wood. This makes a clear fire. There will , dways be more or less smoke 7 or 8 feet up, but it worries no one there and keeps the mosquitoes away. RED — All parts marked so: lUUlulj-_ Smoke-flaps and all tops of teepees, stem of pipe, lower half-circle under pipe, middle part of bowl, wound on side of Elk. blood falling and on trail; Horse, middle Buffalo, two inner bars of pathway upback; also short, dark, cross-bars, spot on middle of two door-hangers, and fringe of totem at top of pathway, and two black lines on doorway, YELLOW — All parts marked so: ' r ■">:■: ••I TTnner half-circle under pipe stem, upper half of each feather on pipe; horseman with bridle, saddle and one hindfoot of Horse; the largest Buffalo, the outside upright of the pathway; the ground colors of the totem; the spotted cross-bars of pathway; the four patches next the ground, the two patches over door, and the rings of door-hanger. _____ GREEN — All parts marked so. f^^Wii Bowl of pipe, spot over it; feather tips of same; Elk, first Buffalo, middle line on each side pathway, and around teepee top; two dashed cross-bars on totem and dashed cross-bars on pathway; bar on which Horse walks; lower edge and line of spots on upper part of door. hairy-wolf's teepef Marked with a peace pipe in Cut p. 468 is Hairy- Wolf's teepee. I came across this on the Upper Missouri in 1897.
