Buffalo robe coat, hair inside 1 robe Buffalo robe over it 1 robe Skin cap and mittens, hair inside ½ robe Blanket breech flap, robe, moccasins, belt knife, and fire apparatus ½ robe Dressed cowskin leggings } 1 pair snowshoes } ½ robe ----------- 3½ robes at $3=$10.50 NO. 2 White blanket coat with hood 3 robes White blanket over it 3 robes Flannel or calico shirt 1 robe Blanket leggings 1 robe Soled rope moccasins } Blanket breech flap } 1 robe Skin mittens, hair inside } ------- 9 robes at $3=$27.00 No. 2 is the dress of a wood hunter, ordinary warrior in winter, if we take away the blanket and substitute a buffalo robe; or it is worn in traveling, and is occasionally used by hunters in the Crow and Sioux Nations, but the Cree and Assiniboin mostly wear No. 1 winter on the plains. Other ordinary dresses are only variations of the foregoing, adding some articles and withdrawing others, but none of them are used when in full dress, on public occasions, among themselves, except sometimes No. 5. All their fancy dresses for dances, war, and feasts have their peculiar marks and distinction in rank; also the robes worn by chiefs, soldiers, or warriors in stated assemblies have their battle scenes painted on them in rude drawings, though intelligible to them. When merely designed to be ornamental the drawing consists of a representation of the sun, made by a large brilliant circle painted in the middle. Sometimes a calumet is pictured, and other devices, such as guns, bows, lances, horses, etc. The dresses of the divining men are not distinguished from those of ordinary Indians by any marks, unless they are able and wish to renew the remembrance of their former coups on their enemies by wearing a robe on which they are drawn, but being generally old they seldom make any display in dress, though wearing a cap or piece of bearskin round the head is common with them. The rest of their clothing in summer would answer to No. 1 and in winter to No. 2, abstracting the blanket capot. WOMEN’S SUMMER DRESSES NO. 1