The device consists of a disk of thin leather about six inches in diameter.

In the centre is a hole through which runs a string.

When the Indian desires to deal with a man with a bald head, he proceeds as follows--observe the simplicity of the operation: He wets the leather, stamps it carefully down upon the surface of the scalp, slides his knife around over the ears, gives the string a jerk, and off comes the scalp as nicely as if it had been Absalom's.

In fact, you will see at once that it is an ingenious application of the 'sucker' used by boys to raise bricks and stones.

I know what you are going to say--that a white man who is to be manipulated by an Indian needs succor worse than the red man.