110 PICTOGEAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



No. II. The measles broke out and many died. The device in the 

 copy is the same as that for 1801-'02, relating to the small pox, except a 

 very slight difference in the red blotches ; and though Lone Dog's artis- 

 tic skill might not have been sufficient to distinctly vary the appear- 

 ance of the two patients, both diseases being eruptive, still it is one of 

 the few serious defects in the chart that the sign for the two years is so 

 nearly identical that, separated from the continuous record, there would 

 be confusion between them. Treating the document as a mere aide-de- 

 mrmoirc, no inconvenience would arise, it probably being well known 

 that the small-pox epidemic preceded that of the measles ; but such 

 care is generally taken to make some, however minute, distinction be- 

 tween the characters, that possibly the figures on Lone-Dog's robe show 

 a more marked difference between the spots indicating the two erup- 

 tions than is reproduced in the copy. It is also to be noticed that the 

 Indian diagnosis makes little distinction between small-pox and measles, 

 so that no important pictographic variation could be expected. The 

 head of this figure is clearly distinguished from that iii lS0l-'02. 



No. III. All the Dakotas had measles, very fatal. 



Battiste Good says : " Small-pox-used-theni-up-agaiu winter." 

 at this time lived on the Little White River, about 20 

 miles above the Rosebud Agency. The character in 

 Battiste Good's chart is presented here in Figure 41, as 

 a variant from those in the plates. 



Cloud-Shield says : Many died of the small-pox. 



White-Cow-Killer calls it "Little-small-pox winter." 



In Mato Sapa's drawing the head of the figure is dis- 

 tinguished from that of 1801-'O2. 



lS19-'20.— No. I. Another trading store built. fig. w.-Measles 



° or small-pox. 



No. II. Another trading store was built ; this time 

 by Louis La Conte, at Fort Pierre, Dakota. His timber, as one of the 

 Indians consulted specially mentioned, was rotten. 



No. III. Trading post built on the Missouri River above Farm Island 

 (near Fort Pierre). 

 Battiste Good says: "Choze-built-a-house-of-rotten-wood winter." 

 White-Cow Killer calls it: " Made-a-house-of-old-wood winter." 

 1820-'2L— No. I. Large dirt lodge made by Two-Arrow. The pro- 

 jection at the top extends downward from the left, giving the impres- 

 sion of red and black cloth streamers. 



No. II. The trader, La Conte, gave Two- Arrow a war-dress for his 

 bravery. So translated an interpreter, and the sign shows the two ar- 

 rows as the warrior's totem ; likewise the gable of a house, which brings 

 in the trader ; also a long strip of black tipped with red streaming from 

 the roof, which possibly may be the piece of parti-colored material outof 

 which the dress was fashioned. This strip is not intended for sparks 

 and smoke, as at first sight suggested, as the red would in that case be 

 nearest the roof, instead of farthest from it. 



