THE SUSTENTATION FUND.

Otago Witness, Issue 1874, 21 October 1887, Page 9

THE SUSTENTATION FUND.

At a meeting of the Sustentation Fund Committee of the Presbyterian Church, held on Monday, the general treasurer reported the following contributions for the past three months. The equal dividend lot that period was declared at J653 10s 3d, making the dividend for nine months £157 3s lid :—

A relic of Indian barbarianism was received at the War department at Washington recently. It consisted of a necklace of human fingers. Originally there were 11 fingers, strung together after the manner of -^necklaces of bears' claws, but three of them had been lost. This ghastly adornment was captured in an attack on the Northern Cheyennesin 1876, and each finger represented a life taken by the owner, the "big mediciae man " of the tribe. The fingers had been preserved by opening the skin, removing the bones, scraping away all the tissues and fatty substances, replaciug the bones, and subjecting the skin to some tanning process. The necklace was sent to West Point by Captain Bourke, who is now engaged in preparing soma historical matter relating to the Indians. It was brought from West Point in order that it might be reproduced in papier-mache at the Smithsonian Institution.

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