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English: Title: Bulletin

Identifier: bulletin3011907smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: CROW MAN river, as far as the source of the Mussel- shell and as low down as the mouth of the Yellowstone." According to Maximilian (1843) the tipis of the Crows were exactly like those of the Sioux, set up without any regular order, and on the poles, instead of scalps were small i)ieces of colored cloth, chietiy red, tioating like streamers in the wind. The camp he visited swarmed with wolf- like dogs. They were a wandering tribe of hunters, making no plantations except a few small patches of tobacco. They lived at that time in some 400 tents and are said to have possessed 1)etween 9,000 and 10,000 horses. Maximilian consid- ered them the proudest of Indians, de- spising the whites; "they do not, how- ever, kill them, but often plunder them." In stature and dress they corresponded with the Hidatsa, and were proud of their long hair. The women have been de- scribed as skilful in various kinds of work, and their shirts and dresses of big- horn leather, as well as ther buffalo robes, embroidered and ornamented with dyed porcupine quills, as particularly hand- some. The men made their weapons very well and with much taste, especially their large bows, covered with liorn of the elk or bighorn and often with rattle- snake skin. The Crows have been de- scribed as extremely superstitious, very dissolute, and nmcli given to unnatural practices; they are skilful horsemen, throwing themselves on one side in their attacks, as is done by many Asiatic tribes. Their dead were usually placed on stages elevated on poles in the jjrairie. The population was estimated bv Lewis and Clark (1804) at 350 lodges and 3,500 individuals; in 1829 and 1834, at 4,500; Maximilian (1843) counted 400 tipis; Hayden (1862) said there were formerly about 800 lodges or families, in 1862 re- duced to 460 lodges. Their number in 1890 was 2,287; in 1904, 1,826. Lewis (Stat. View, 1807) said they were divided into four Ijands, called by themselves Ahaharopirnopa, Ehartsar, Noota, and Pareescar. Culbertson (Smithson. Rep. 1850, 144, 1851) divides the tribe into (1) Crow People, and (2) Minesetperi, or Sapsuckers. These two divisions he sub- divides into 12 bands, giving as the names only the English equivalents. Morgan (Anc. Soc, 159, 1877) gives the following bands: Acheiial^echa, Ahachik, Ashina- dea, Ashbochiah, Ashkanena, Booadasha, Esachkabuk, Esekepkabuk, Hokarutcha, Ohotdusha, Oosal )otsee, Petchaleruhpaka, and Shiptetza. The Crows have been officially classified as Mountain Crows and River Crows, the former so called because of their custom

Text Appearing After Image: CROW WOMAN of hunting and roaming near the moun- tains away from Missouri r., the latter from the fact that they left the mountain section about 1859 and occupied the

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