Bingham Bulletin | 1925-03-13 | Page 3 | Indians' Steam Bath

Indiana' Steam Bath ' ';. The sweat bath haa been used, by the Sioux and other Indiana of the Northwest for generations. The framework frame-work of the bath closet la made of Umber willow sticks, over which art thrown blankets and skins anchored with heavy atonea. Id a hole In the center of the both ara white-hot atonea, on which the bather aplaahea cold water to make team. Periodically ha drlnka cold water to Indue perspiration. In the meantime the bather laahea his body with a bundle of tightly-bound straw. After thirty minutes of this be runs to a stream and plunges Into th cold water. For aoap the Indian usea flue mud at the bottom of the stream. A twenty-minute sunning completes the eml-weekly bath, says Chief Buffalo Child Lung Lance In the Mentor mag-mine.