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Indian Lives and Anecdotes ca. 1886 - 1941 part 9
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| + | time. Obum was thrumming on a tin plate for music. Piel danced till so exhausted that he foamed at the mouth and his eyes glared. They kept up the performance for a long time | ||
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| + | The background was the fire behind which was a fender of two pieces of spruce bark about 6 & 8 ft long. On one the Tahmunts [?] had painted a moose and two men following. On the other Piel drew two canoes with three men in them (Staples then intended to go back) going up [one struck through] down river, (the water indicated by the curl of the waves & the slant the direction) and painted below Ma-ha-ta-pina mi-lo-wi Mat-tawaska, we three are going down to Mattawaska. The onlookers at the dance were Leonard Staples & father. | ||
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time. Obum was thrumming on a tin plate for music. Piel danced till so exhausted that he foamed at the mouth and his eyes glared. They kept up the performance for a long time
The background was the fire behind which was a fender of two pieces of spruce bark about 6 & 8 ft long. On one the Tahmunts [?] had painted a moose and two men following. On the other Piel drew two canoes with three men in them (Staples then intended to go back) going up [one struck through] down river, (the water indicated by the curl of the waves & the slant the direction) and painted below Ma-ha-ta-pina mi-lo-wi Mat-tawaska, we three are going down to Mattawaska. The onlookers at the dance were Leonard Staples & father.