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age

Description

Indicate by denoting the number of winters.


References: winter

Notes

Clark notes that there are few tribes, aside from the Cheyennes, Sioux, and Arapahoes, who pretend to keep any account of their individual ages, claiming that "when you they don't care to know, and when old they don't want to." One accustomed to judge can pretty accurately determine the age of Indians from the appearance of the eyes and teeth, as, after middle age, a whitish, filmy ring appears on the iris, and in most cases the teeth become very much worn.