retain the old dress, language, arts and dances. With them lived a few
Winnebagoes. In general the lives of the two peoples are similar.
Certain arts common to both of them particularly interested me. They
are the making of sacks of barks and cords, and the weaving of bead
bands for legs and arms, upon the _ci-bo-hi-kan_. Of the bark sacks
there are several patterns, the simplest being made of splints of bark
passing alternately over and under each other. Another kind, far more
elaborate in construction, is before you. Yet more elaborate ones are
made entirely of cords. The first of these I saw was in old Jennie
Davenport's wikiup. It was of white and black cords, and the black
ones were so manipulated as to form a pattern--a line of human figures
stretching across the sack. Jennie would not sell it, as she said, "It
is a Winnebago woman's sack; Fox woman not make that kind." I found
afterward a large variety of these Winnebago sacks, and all were
characterized by patterns of men, deer, turtles, or other animals. Not
one Fox sack of such pattern was to be found, though many elaborate
and beautiful geometrical designs were shown me.

The most beautiful work done on this reservation is the bead weaving
on the ci-bo-hi-kan--woven work, _not_ sewed, remember. In appearance
the result is like the Iroquois wampum belts, but the management of
the threads is dissimilar. The Sac and Fox patterns are frequently
complex and beautiful, but always geometrical. We have seen hundreds
of them, but none with life forms. The Winnebago belts, made in
exactly the same way, frequently, if not always, present animals or
birds or human beings.

This, it seems to us, is very curious. Here are people of two tribes
living side by side, with the same mode of life and the same arts, but
in their art designs so diverse. It is a case parallel to that of the