Note 65 — VOL. XXVI., No. 152.—NOVEMBER, 1877. (continued 5)
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Even at this day our pagan Ojibwas make such a use of human bones. They either carry them in their “medicine bags” as “manitous” or grind them to powder, which they apply especially to their puncturing instruments. In diseases of the head the powder of the skull is used; in the case of a sore leg, that of the tibia or femur, etc.