The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01

a1s reiIcs from the HayaSuppal Indians
In Arizona are numerous. Their long
suit is basket making and pottery. Their
'esawa'' is water jug OF unusual inter
est Is is made of woven willow and
made waterproof by pinion resin. These
jugs are so constructed that no cork ia
needed for them. They can be laid down
anywhere. on their sides. and the water
VIII not run out. If one is tired he can
SIT down on them and they make a good
seat They are carried on the backs
OF women being held by d strap which
is held by the forehead.
These Indians also drink their soup
out OF baskets. which are called coo-oo
baskets. They are made of willow twigs
woven with such skill that they are
waterproof. These baskets are also used
sometimes as q cooking uteRsil. Ii is
placed on a heated rock, and corn roasted
IN it. 1t is hard to conceive a water
tight willow basket but the Arizona saw
ages can make them.
These Indians carry with them combs
and scratehers and Mr.. Bradley has a
sample of each. The comsS are made
OF mescai fiber and resemble a small
Of horn and the Indians use them with
great frequency and deftness.
The most ancient relic Mr.. Bratley has
is an ancient Hopi food bowl 1t was
the custom among the ancients to bury
them with the Indians and this one was
taken out OF a grave several hundred
years old.
His Sioux ghost gamble is one of the
rarest Indian relics in America. Among
the ancient Sioux Indians it was the Gus
tom. when member of the tribe died.
woman or man. to take piece OF the
scalp, wrap it up in a large bundle and
hang it up in a lodge tent for a year At
the end of this time it was taken down
and a big gamble was held for the
property of the deceased. If he or she
had no property friends would contri-
butte some things. Only the women would
gamble" for woman's property and men
for the properly Of male ghosts. In the
case of a mans ghost gamble nine little
pieces of wood like beans would be placed
in small basket Eight of these beans !
would have combinations marked upon
them and in the shake-up the person who !
would get a pair of the same combi- |
nation would be given the first choice Of |
the articles of which the property of the /
ghost consisted and so on until the poor |
ghost was bereft of everything earthly |
The ninth bean was sort of cutter card |
and would "fI out certain combina- |
tons of the beans. The gamble" was |
held in the presence of the ghost. his /
special representative being the man Sc
ected TO shake-up the basket for him. A /
Dig feast was always a feature of the
gamble.
The skin scrapers owned by Mr.. Brat
ey are interesting They are made out
If elk horns. sharpened and shaped by
shaving so as to make them look like
mail hoe. He secured one of these
lad it for fifty-nine years A little
lotch on the horns was made for every
ear she owned it, having inherited II
rom her mother.
Mr. E;a: ev has the saddle uscl by Big
'oot" at the lattle of wounded Knee ~
500 1t is made of rawhids and is wei
applied with bullet holes. Big Foot
lever rode in it after that day, being
Tiled in the fight
He has a hammer made out of granite
which the Puget Sound Indians still use.
t is shaped like dumb bell and when
aptive Indians were made slaves it Il
rould take three of them to buy one of
hese hammers.
Mr.. Bradley has new house and seven
r eight fine Navajo blankets, some of
hem nearly half an inch thick. are used (
$ rugs. He has probably the largest :
objection of Indian trinkets individually !
Wred in Kansas and the enterprisinS
hurch social that first borrows them ]
rom him VIII have an attraction worth
cling