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Why did I ever know what Kurdaitcha and Interlinia mean? 

‘Among them were, perhaps, some curious native p. 304shoes, made of emu’s feathers—they are called Interlinia or, by white men, Kurdaitcha shoes?’

His shoes woven of twigs, so as not to show the direction in which he is proceeding, answer to the equally shapeless feather sandals of the blacks who “go Kurdaitcha,” that is, as avengers of blood.��

Both medicine man and Kurdaitcha wore remarkable shoes.

Kurdaitcha Shoes.—When a native for some reason desired to kill a member of another camp or tribe, he consulted the medicine man of his camp, and arrangements were made for a 'Kurdaitcha Luma.'…