114 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



as to render the patient an object of general curiosity and gossip, whose 

 affliction thereby came within the plan of the count. The device merely 

 shows a man-figure, not much fatter than several others, but distin- 

 guished by a line extending sidewise from the top of the head and in- 

 clining downward. The other records cast doubt upon the interpreta- 

 tion of dropsy. 



No. III. Dakota war party killed a buffalo ; having eaten of it they 

 all died. 



Battiste Good says: "Atea-wbistle anddied winter," and adds: "Six 

 Dakotas, on the war-path, had nearly perished with hunger, when they 

 found and ate the rotting carcass of an old buffalo, on which the wolves 

 had been feeding. They were seized soon after with pains in the stomach, 

 their abdomens swelled and gas poured from the mouth, and they died 

 of a whistle, or from eating a whistle." The sound of gas escaping from 

 the mouth is illustrated in his figure which see in Figure 146, page 221. 



White-Cow-Killer calls it "Long-whistle-sick winter." 



1827-'28. — No. I. A Minneconjou is stabbed by a Gros Ventre, and 

 his arm shrivels up. 



No. II. Dead Arm was stabbed with a knife or dirk by a Mandan. 

 The illustration is quite graphic, showing the long-handled dirk in the 

 bloody wound and the withered arm. Though the Mandaus are also of 

 the great Siouan family, the Dakotas have pursued them with special 

 hatred. In 1823, their number, much diminished by wars, still ex- 

 ceeded 2,500. 



No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota wounded with a large knife by a Gros 

 Ventre. The large knife was a sword, and the Indian who was wounded 

 was named, afterwards, Lame-Shoulder. This is an instance of a 

 change of name after a remarkable event in life. 



1828-'29. — No. I. Chardran, a white man, builds a house at forks of 

 ( In yenne River. This name should probably be spelled Chadron, with 

 whom Catlin hunted in 1832, in the region mentioned. 



No. II. A white man named Shardran, who lately (as reported in 1877) 

 was still living in the same neighborhood, built a dirt lodge. The hatted 

 head appears under the roof. 



III. Trading post opened in a dirt lodge on the. Missouri a little be- 

 low the mouth of the Little Missouri River. 



1829-'30. — No. I. A Dakota found dead in a canoe. 



No. II. Bad-Spike killed another Indian with an arrow. 



No. III. A Yanktonai Dakota killed by Bad-Arrow Indians. 



The Bad Arrow Indians is a translation of the Dakota name for a cer- 

 tain band of Blackfeet Indians. 



Mato Sapa says: a Yanktonai was killed by the Bad-Arrow Indians. 



Major Bush says the same as Mato Sapa. 



1830-'31.— No. I. Mandans kill twenty Grows at Bear Butte. 



No. II. Bloody battle with the Crows, of whom it is said twenty-three 



