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Updated: June 24, 2025
Old men and boys crowded about the hero of the day, the dog, and the thoughtful grandmother of Matohinshda unharnessed him and poured some water from a parfleche water bag into a basin. "Here, my grandson, give your friend something to drink." "How, hechetu," pronounced an old warrior no longer in active service.
Then the Raven chief spoke and said, "Now, Wolf, I am going to give our new friend a present. What do you think of that?" "It shall be as you say," replied the Wolf; "our new friend will be glad." From a long parfleche sack the Raven chief took a slender stick, beautifully ornamented with many-colored feathers. To the end of the stick was tied the skin of a raven head, wings, feet, and tail.
Going ahead with Carson to reconnoitre the road, we reached in the afternoon the river which made the outlet of the lake. Carson sprang over, clear across a place where the stream was compressed among rocks, but the parfleche sole of my moccasin glanced from the icy rock, and precipitated me into the river.
With the others I played about the camp, spinning tops on the ice, sliding down hill on a bit of parfleche, or on a sled made of buffalo ribs, and sometimes hunting little birds in the brush. All this I know about from having heard my mother tell of it; it is not in my memory. This is what I remember: One day, with one of my friends, I had gone a little way from the camp, and down the stream.
Even their horses are covered with similar devices stained upon their skins in ochre, charcoal, and vermilion! The sight is too fearful to be fantastic. On they come, uttering their wild "Howgh-owgh-aloo!" brandishing their various weapons, and making their shields of parfleche rattle by repeated strokes against their clubs and spears on comes the angry avalanche!
The boy grew up a great hunter. They became rich. They built three great tepees, in one of which were stored rows upon rows of parfleche bags of dried meat. One day as the brother went out to hunt, he met a handsome young stranger who greeted him and said to him: "I know you are a good hunter, for I have been watching you; your sister, too, is industrious. Let me have her for a wife.
"We were now in the third day without food! Without food, though not absolutely without eating the men had bolted their gun-covers and the cat-skin flaps of their bullet-pouches, and were now seen the last shift but one stripping the parfleche from the soles of their moccasins!
The Indian life is to the white life as the parfleche pouch to to this." She laid her hand upon a purse of delicate silver mesh hanging at her waist. "When your eyes are opened you must go on, you cannot stop. There is no going back. When you have read of all there is in the white man's world, when you have seen, then there is no returning.
A drum, similar to, though larger than a tambourine, covered with parflêche, was beaten upon with a stick, producing with the voices a sound not altogether disagreeable. Throughout the entire night and succeeding day the voices of the singers and heavy notes of the drum reached us, and at night again the same dull sound lulled me to sleep.
The devils, who was chuckling by a furnace where was irons a-heating, approached easy, and run one into his back. I jumped at them and hollered, 'You owdacious little hell-pups, let him alone; if my scalp-taker was here, I'd make buzzard feed of your meat, and parfleche of your dog-skins, but they squeaked out, to 'go to the devil.
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