116 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



Another account in the catalogue, of Catlin's cartoons gives the por- 

 trait of The One Horn as number 354, with the statement that having 

 killed his only son accidentally, he became deranged, wandered into 

 the prairies, and got himself killed by an infuriated buffalo bull's horns. 

 This was at the mouth of Little Missouri River, in 1834. 



l,s:J3-'34. — No. I. Many stars fell (meteors). The character shows six 

 black stars above the concavity of the moon. 



No. II. "The stars fell," as the Indians all agreed. This was the 

 great meteoric shower observed all over the United States on the night 

 of November 12th of that year. In this chart the moon is black and 

 the stars are red. 



No. III. Dakotas witnessed magnificent meteoric showers; much 

 terrified. 



Battiste Good calls it " Storm-of-stars winter," and gives as the device 

 a tipi, with stars falling around it. This is presented in Figure 44. 

 The tipi is colored yellow in the original, and so 

 represented in the figure according to the heraldic 

 scheme. 



White-Cow-Killer calls it "Plenty-stars winter." 



All the winter counts refer to this meteoric dis- 

 play. See page 138. 



1834-'35.— No. I. A Ree killed by a Dakota. 



No. 1 1. The chief, Medicine-Hide, was killed. The 

 device shows the body as bloody, but not the war 

 bonnet, by which it is distinguished from the char- 

 acter for 1830-'31. 



No. III. An Uncpapa Dakota Medicine-man killed fig. a.— Meteoric shower. 

 by the Ree Indians. 



Ma to Sapa says : An Uncpapa medicine-man was killed by Rees. 

 There is no red on the figure. 



1835-'36. — No. I. Lame-Deer killed by a Dakota. The Dakota had 

 only one arrow. He pulled it out and shot Lame-Deer many times. 



No. II. Lame-Deer shot a Crow Indian with an arrow; drew it out 

 and shot him again with the same arrow. The hand is drawing the 

 arrow from the first wound. This is another instance of the principle 

 on which events were selected. Many fights occurred of greater mo- 

 ment, but with no incident precisely like this. 



No. III. Minneconjou chief named Lame-Deer shot an Assiniboine 

 three times with the same arrow. He kept so close to his enemy that 

 he never let the arrow slip away from the bow, but pulled it out and 

 shot it in again. 



Mato Sapa says a Minneconjou named Lame-Deer shot an Assiniboine 

 three times running with the same arrow. 



Lame-Deer was a distinguished chief among the hostiles in 187G. 

 His camp of five hundred and ten lodges was surprised and destroyed 



