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    | Author: Ken Rasmussen Date:   2003-06-02 03:11
 
 "Traveling in his fowing cassock and carrying a silver clarinet, for many tribes he personified the idea of the Black Robe."  I copied the preceding words from a community newspaper called "The Monthly", printed in NE Washington State.  Father DeSmet was a Jesuit priest, who traveled widely in the NW United States while converting the "Heathen".  I suspect that he may have carried a coronet, and that the author was confused, but who knows?  Does anyone have any information about this?
 
 
 
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    | Author: BobD Date:   2003-06-02 16:53
 
 If the good father carried a coronet he probably got tired rather quickly.
 Were silver clarinets not available in the early 1800s?
 
 
 
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