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Old Indian trails

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Sunset from Lookout Butte Colored frontispiece

A Small Lake on the Western Slope of the Rockies 4

Our Indian Tepee 4

An Old Indian Trail 16

Tribal Camp of Blackfoot on the Prairie 20

Mad Wolf 36

Mad Wolf praying 40

Mad Wolf’s Sacred Beaver Bundle 40

Woman under a Sun-Shelter: Bead and Quill Work; Meat drying on Poles 70

Woman repairing a Tepee-Cover 70

Scaffold Burial 78

A Grave on a Hilltop 78

White Grass, the Medicine Man Showing Interior Arrangement of his Tepee 92

Sunrise at our Hunting Camp in the Rockies (in color) 112

Onesta 154

Nitana 174

The Country of the North Piegans 186

Onesta entering the Thunder Tepee with his Sacred Bundles 200

The Crow Water Ceremony of Onesta in the Thunder Tepee 200

Brings-Down-the-Sun and the Author 210

Three Chiefs, Followers of Mad Wolf 250

A Line of Warriors with War Bonnets 250

Drying and Softening a Skin 256

Fleshing a Hide 256

Circle Camp of the Blackfoot 260

Inner Circle of the Tribal Camp, with Crow Tepee in Foreground (in color) 264

Rattler doctoring Stuyimi 272

Elk Horn, Herald of the Brave Dog Society 280

Society of Brave Dogs marching through the Camp 284

Characteristic Costumes of Brave Dogs 284

Brave Dogs giving their Society Dance 286

Mountain Chief 292

Wolf Plume 292

A Blackfoot Camp on the Prairie (in color) 296

Ceremony of the Sun Dance inside the Sacred Tepee 302

Raising the Center Pole for the Sun Lodge 308

The Sun Lodge Finished and Ready for the Tribe 308

Twilight in the Circle Camp: Tepees illuminated by Inside Fires 314

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