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THE LONE RANGER'S COMPANION 



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Indian Art 




Painted designs on shields used by the 
Plains Indians were believed to have such 
strong medicine that the paintings, rathei 
than the shields, were the warriors' real pro- 
tection in battle. All realistic Indian paintings 
were done by men of the tribe; women were 
permitted to paint only geometric designs. 



bark to expose the brown layer beneath, 
Birchbark held a place ol vast importance in 
the daily lives oi tribes living in the northern 
United States, Canada, and Alaska. These 
northern tribes made no pottery, but used the 
readily obtainable bark to make household 




Shield designs were first seen in visions or 
dreams. But other paintings were done to tell 
a story, since there was no written language. 
The painting on the buckskin robe, upper 
right, depicts the name of the brave who 
owned it, "Chases-Buff alo-Twice." 

Designs on birchbark containers, such as 
the animals on the Cree basket, lower left, 
were not painted. Such designs were made 
by cutting away the white outside layer of 



and carrying equipment, canoes, dwellings, 
and even clothing. 

Many of the brilliantly colored symbols 
and designs used by Plains Indians upon 
themselves, their equipment, and their war 
ponies were painted and worn for the pur- 
pose of describing honors won in baltle. or 
deeds of valor and bravery: they might be 
called Indian campaign ribbons. 



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<N(il York I, N Y CupyriihU 1953, by 
■a Printing & Lithographing Co. 



■erljf by Dell Pubiiih 
L; Alben P. Oclaoort 



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TURNED OUR GLANCES THIS 
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TAKE ROPES AND LET ALL THE WARRIORS FOLLOW J 
NE f WE WILL CLIMB THE STEEP CLIFFSIDE OF *- 

Cable's nest and surprise the crow f but as 

WE NEAR THE TOP, WE WILL HEED TO DIVERT THEIR 
GUARDS t LET THE OLD MEN AND BOYS 
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BUT A FALLING ROCK, DISPLACED BY 
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THE eLIFFSIDE.,. _____ 





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THERE 13 NONE NOW.TONTOI WHEN THE 

IAR0S WERE FLEEING FROM THE 
INDIANS THROUGH HERE A HUNDRED TEARS 
AGO, THEY HAD TO HIDE THEIR LOOT 50 
THEY COULD RID C FASTER f THEY BURIED 

IT THERE AND THEN MADE A CHANNEL FROM 
HE NEAR-BY RIVER THAT FLOODED THAT 

DEPRESSION IN THE PLAINS — -THAT 

ARTIF ttlAL LAKE HID 

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hand beaches for the sluice lever, 
he pushes down on 



WATERf — YOU BLASTED 
POLECAT, YOU'LL FLOOD THE; 
LAKE ABAINf 



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