102 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



according to American-Horse, Long-Hair (a Cheyenne) was killed in 

 1796-''97. 



White Cow-Killer says : " Little-Face-kill winter." 



Battiste Good says in his count for the succeeding year, 1794-95, 

 " Killed-little face-Pawnee winter." The Pawnee's face was long, flat, 

 and narrow like a man's hand, but he had the body of a large man. 



179i-'95 — No. 1. A Mandan chief killed a noted Dakota chief with 

 remarkably long hair, and took his scalp. 



White-Cow-Killer says : " Loug-Hair-killed winter." 



1795-9G — No. I. While surrounded by the enemy (Mandans) a Black- 

 feet Dakota Indian goes at the risk of his life for water for the party. 



The interpreter states that this was near the present Cheyenne 

 Agency, Dakota Territory. In the original character there is a bloody 

 wound at the shoulder showing that the heroic Indian was wounded. 

 He is shown bearing a water vessel. 



Battiste Good gives a figure for this year recognizably the same as 

 that in The-Flame's chart, but with a different explanation. He calls 

 it " The Rees-stood-the-frozen-inan-up-with-the-butfalo stomach-in-his- 

 haud winter," and adds : " The body of a Dakota who had been killed 

 in an encounter with the Bees, and had been left behind, froze. The 

 Bees dragged it into their village, propped it up with a stick, and hung 

 a buffalo stomach filled with ice in one hand to make sport of it. The 

 buffalo stomach was in common use at that time as a water-jug." 



White-Cow Killer calls it " Water-stomach-killed winter." 



1796-'97— No. I. A Maudan chief, "The-Man-with tke-Hat," becomes 

 noted as a warrior. The character is precisely the same as that often 

 given for white man. Some error in the interpretation is suggested in 

 the absence of knowledge whether there actually was a Maudan chief 

 so named, in which case the pictograph would be consistent. 



Battiste Good says: " Wears-the- war-bonnet-died winter," adding: 

 He did not die this winter, but received a wound in the abdomen from 

 which the arrow head could not be extracted, but he died of the belly- 

 ache years after. 



White-Cow-Killer says : " War-Bouuet-killed winter." 



The translated expression, "killed," has been noticed to refer often 

 to a fatal wound, though the death did not take place immediately. 



1797-98. — No. I. A Ree woman is killed by a Dakota while gather- 

 ing ''pomme-blanche," a root used for food. Pomme-blanche, or Navet 

 de prairie, is a white root somewhat similar in appearance to a white 

 turnip, botanically Psoralea esculenta (Nuttal), sometimes P. argophylla. 

 It is a favorite food of the Indians, eaten boiled down to a sort of 

 mush or hominy. A forked stick is used in gathering these roots. 



It will be noticed that this simple statement about the death of the 

 Arikara woman is changed by other recorders or interpreters into one 

 of a mythical character. 



