The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-04-03

Sharp Horn had some hair from
an old chief named Long Hair. On
: day Tharp Horn showed the prizes
the hair. 1t was wound as lariat
, The old Indian said it was seventy
five hands long, but that formerly i
was 100 hands long. He said hi
, had cut off twenty-five hands anc
given it to war party Measure
ments showed that the length was
seventy-five hands, but examination
revealed the fact that the hairs were
patched together with fine pitch
Sharp Horn was very angry when
the priest pointed out the fraud
Sharp Horn said that Long Hair had
kept the lariat of hair wrapped
around his head and that he had
always declared that the hair grew
constantly. When his larait reach
ed 100 hands long Long, Hair said
he would die. At the time of his
death his hair measured the length
forecast
The Crows are given the credit
by>some tribes of having invented
the war bonnet of eagle feathers.
One of the tribe claimed to have a
vision in which he was told to make
and wear a head gear of the eagle
feathers. Then his enemies could
not kill him. He did so, and his
medicine was so strong that the
others adopted it. Later outside
tribes learned the custom.
The manners of the Crows are
dignifed, pleasant and affable,
though reserved. Among other tribes
they have an excellent reputation
for their crafty skill and bravery in
war;,
With General Custer when his
force was annihilated on June Is,
1875, by the Sioux were a number
of Crow scouts. Every man of his
264 men in the center column is
supposed to have been killed. The
Crows say that one scout called
Curley escaped by feigDing death.
Curley made his way to the place at
which Clusters reinforcements were
expected to be and met them. They
asked him for news from. Custer.
Curley could not talk English, but
he used graphic method of COM
munication.
Taking a bundle of sticks, he set
them up in the plain Then he
marked the sticks to indicate the
rank of the soldiers. Having done
this, with another stick he swept the
entire line down, thus telling his
story.
"A slab marks the place at which !
each of Clusters men fell. The white
marks on the hilltop recount
dramatic disaster. A group of stones
is far in front; other lines are drawn
up as were the men. Far on the
sides are others to the memory of
these who we're caught away from
the main line or who were killed
after the defeat in a final effort to
escape
The Secret of the War Trail is
one of the closest mysteries of thu
Crows. Only warriors were admit
ted to the rite. was never among
those present, but it is described by
a spectator.
"A long intestine of the buffalo
was brought into the circle of war;
riors who were to be intrusted with
,he secret. Every man took hold of
the intestine with his finger, in the
circle. certain questions were asked
each in regard to the conduct of the
village. Every man was religiously
committed to answer all questions
of whom their confessions
implicated. Every illegal action
they had committed since they last
went to war was exposed, with the
names Of the faithless accomplices.
All this was divulged to the med
icine men on the return of the party
from war. 1t was noted down and
never erased while the confessor
lived. Every new warrior at his in
itiation was conjured never to
divulge the warpath secret to any
woman on the pain of instant death.
The return of war party is re-
called by those who were present at
a most turbulent affair. The war
riors returned amid shrieks, cries
and yells Blood was streaming from
the bodies of all in the village old
enough to comprehend their loss.
Fingers were cut off at the joints
to indicate their sorrow for the losses.
Hair was torn from the head and
thrown in profusion about the paths.
Walls and means assaulted the ears
from every direction Many war
riors would cut two gashes the en-
tire length of their arms. Then,
the skin from the flesh,
thew would rim their arms omen tn