Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1919 — Indian Gives Girl Saddle. [ARTICLE]

Indian Gives Girl Saddle.

Tvndail, S. IX—What without doubt is one of the finest and most valuable saddles in the whole Northwest has been presented to Miss Anna Kirk of this city.by an old Indian friend. The saddle is entirely covered with beads, red white and blue, fashioned in different designs. The saddle shows wear, and evidently had been in use in the tribe for some years. The work on it indicates that many months and perhaps years, were required to make the saddle and fashion the headwork designs upon it. Miss Kirk refused an offer t»f $l5O for * he saddle, which thought to be one of the finest exam-