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The Indians used to have charms [underlined] hung on their guns [underlined]. They were little bags made of beads or of velvet and beads and hung to the trigger guard. They were very particular to have these in order to make the gun shoot. They were small, about as large as an ounce bag [?] the squares, diamons & hearts about 1 in in longest diameter.

A gun [underlined] was always feminine in Indian; a canoe [underlined] and a hatchet [underlined] masculine.

The men used to wear crucifixes or medals fastened by a string or chain around the neck so that they rested in the hollow of the mens throat [sic?]. The women all wore rosaries and crucifixes.

The hatchet [underlined] was put into the belt with head to the right & handle to the left so that it might be seized by the head & drawn forth easily. The knife [underlined] was carried on the left; the pitchnumgan [underlined] also, with the split side underneath. The powder horn [two underlined] was slung on the right so that the powder could be poured into the left hand.

Indians used to paint or score eyes on canoes so they could "see 'um rocks".