100 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



Eeference is also made to the counts in the Corbusier system when cor- 

 respondence is to he noted. 



1780-'87. — No. I represents an Uncpapa chief who wore an "iron" 

 suield over his head. It is stated that he was a great warrior, killed by 

 the Eees. This word is abbreviated from the word Arikaree, a corrupt 

 form of Arikara. This year in the Anno Domini style is ascertained by 

 counting back from several well-known historical events corresponding 

 with those on the charts. 



Battiste Good's count for the same year says : " Iron-hand baud- went- 

 ou-war-path winter," and adds, " They formerly carried burdens on their 

 backs hung from a band passed across their forehead. This man had 

 a band of iron which is shown on his head." 



1787-88. — No. I. A clown, well known to the Indians; a mischief- 

 maker. A Minnecoujou. The interpreter could not learn how he was 

 connected with this .year. His accoutrements are fantastic. The char- 

 acter is explained by Battiste Good's winter count for the same year as 

 follows: 



"Left-the-heyoka-mau-behind winter." A certain man was heyoka, 

 that is, in a peculiar frame, of mind, ami went about the village bedecked 

 with feathers singing to himself, and, while so, joined a war party. On 

 sighting the enemy the party fled, aud called to him to turn back also, 

 but as he was heyoka, he construed everything tbat was said to him as 

 meaning the very opposite, aud, therefore, instead of turning back he 

 went forward and was killed. The interpreter remarked if they had only 

 had sense enough to tell him to go on, he would then have run away, but 

 the idiots talked to him just as if he had been an ordinary mortal, and, 

 of course, were responsible for his death. 



The figure by Battiste Good strougly resembles that in this chart, 

 giving indications of fantastic dress with the bow. The independent 

 explanations of this figure and of some on the next page referring to 

 dates so remote have been of interest to the present writer. 



17s,S-'89. — No. I. Very severe winter and much suffering among the 

 Indians. Crows were frozen to death, which is a rare occurrence. 

 Hence the figure of the crow. 



Battiste Good says : " Many-crows-died winter." 



Cloud Shield says : The winter was so cold that many crows froze 

 to death. 



White-Cow-Killer calls the preceding year, 1787-'88, "Many -black- 

 crows-died winter." 



For the year 1789-'90, American-Horse says : " The cold was so in- 

 tense that crows froze iu the air aud dropped dead near the lodges." 



This is an instance of w T here three sets of accounts refer to the same 

 severe cold, apparently to three successive years; it may really not have 

 been three successive years, but that all charts referred to the same 

 season, the fractions of years not being regarded, as above explained. 





