GROS VENTRE, CORBEAU

Arrach Bugju urrach Baga. Annach Bogu minnach Baga. Elangé Bugjé urrach Baga. Etangé Bugich minnach Baga. Ma-pook-cha urrach Baga. Ma-pook-ta Minnach Baga. Aitché shibbisha urrach Baga. | Aitché jibbla minnach Baga.

The Corbeaux tribes cannot pronounce the letter ‘ V ”, but the Gros Ventres speak Corbeau fluently.

All these tribes dress in the same manner ; the men have long hair which trail to the grourd, but to make it appear long they add horse hair by a cement of gum. They comb only the fore. head and, for combs, they substitute porcupine tails. The women are careless about their hair which scarcely reaches the shoulders ; to make it look fine they sometimes throw a little water over it.

The Corbeaux do not cut off joints of their fingers, nor slash their own flesh as the Gros Ventres do, but they are much addicted to an abominable crime, the crime of sodomy (1).

(1) Details unfit for publication.

ered numbers obliged to fly ntains, where, emselves with a new tribe, the two otherstres call them, * and ‘ Hey-re- 6 K.na-ta” and st of the words atly as follows: