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Indian Lives and Anecdotes ca. 1886 - 1941 part 2

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in which the Sundays were represented by circles and the Catholic days by different symbols | now in Bayn Hartwick Shurtz's [?] collection & I have a photograph of it

He was a short, broad chested, bullet headed man with an Indian face, weighing about 175, tough and hard built. Hs wife was woman of great ability and of very commanding appearance

Joe had medlas given him at Augusta to take home to the tribe and he left them until the time of his death. (There were also medals struck off by Congress and given the father of Dr. John Francis of Passamaquoddy which were stolen by Sappiel Selma) & the medals to old Gov. Neptune mentioned before

The canoe in which Polis carried Thoreau on his trip Joe kept for years, hoping to sell it as a curiosity because he had heard that it had been written about in book. It might be in existence today as it was well kept. He collected and sold curiosities, made & sold baskets and kept a little shop which I well remember on the left hand of the main Indian street going up, a little before the rise by