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Show THE AUTHOE A MAGICIAN. 67 CHAPTER X. Cheyenne Indian Village-" Big Timber"-Daguerreotypes-Indian Papoose-Author is Suddenly Changed into a Magician-Silver and Brass Bracelets-Portrait of Indian Princess-" Presto, pass /"-Moccasins-Cheyennes and Pawnees at War-Grand Scalp-dance-Col. Fremont a Spectator-Dinner with the Chief-Rosewood Carved Furniture not in Use-Duties of Indian Women-Employment of the Men. THE Cheyenne village, on Big Timber, consists of about two hundred and fifty lodges, containing, probably, one thousand persons, including men, women and children. I went into the village to take daguerreotype views of their lodges, and succeeded in obtaining likenesses of an Indian princess-a very aged woman, with a papoose, in a cradle or basket, and several of the chiefs. I had great difficulty in getting them to sit still, or even to submit to have themselves daguerreo-typed. I made a picture, first, of their lodges, which I showed them. I then made one of the old woman and papoose. When they saw it, they thought I was a " supernatural being;" and, before I left camp, they were satisfied I was more than human. The squaws are very fond of ornaments; their arms are encircled with bracelets made of thick brass wire- sometimes of silver beaten out as thin as pasteboard. The princess, or daughter of the Great Chief, was a beautiful Indian girl. She attired herself in her most costly robes, ornamented with elk teeth, beads, and colored porclipine quills-expressly to have her likeness taken. I made a beautiful picture of her. |