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it put with the sacred pole which I had secured and presented to the Peabody Museum. I said also that I had seen one of the last keepers and that he had also expressed an earnest desired that the sacred hide when found & recovered should be placed with the sacred pole at the Peabody Museum. "Well" he said. "I might do that. I will think about it." I said "I wish you would, because for scientific as well as historical interests the two sacred articles should be placed together in whatever Museum they might be presented to. He then suggested that I go and see it. He said it is safe at the Academy of Sciences, and I shall not dispose of it. Tell Mr. Baker that I sent you there and to show you the hide".

I asked if the pipe was still with it and he startled me by answering that he'd not noticed it if there