MAT.I.EKV.] 



DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS, 1840-1848. 



119 



No. III. No buffalo ; Indians made medicine to tbe Great Spirit by 

 painting a buffalo's head on lodge ; plenty came. 



Mato Sapa says: Dakotas were starving; made medicine to Great 

 Spirit by painting buffalo bead on their lodges ; plenty came. 



Major Bush substantially same as Mato Sapa. 



1844-'45.— No. I. Mandans wintered in Black Hills. 



No. II. Tbe Minnecoujous built a pine fort. Device: A pine tree con- 

 nected with a tipi. 



No. III. Uu usually heavy snow ; had to build corrals for ponies. 



Major Bush says : Heavy suow, in which many of their ponies per- 

 ished. 



Probably the Indians went into the woods and erected their tipis 

 there as protection from the snow, thus accounting for the figure of the 

 tree. 



lS45-'46 — No. I. Dakotas have much feasting at Ash Point, 20 miles 

 above Port Sully. 



No. II. Plenty of buffalo meat, which is represented as hung upon 

 poles and trees to dry. 



No. III. Immense quantities of buffalo meat. 



lS4G-'47.— No. I. Broken-Leg dies. 



No. II. Broken-Leg died. Bev. Dr. Williamson says he knew him. 

 He was a BruI6. There is enough difference between this device and 

 those for 1808-'09 and 1832-'33 to distinguish each. 



No. HI. A Minneconjou Dakota named Broken-Leg died. 



Battiste Good calls this: "The-Teal-broke-his-leg winter." The arm in 

 biscbaracter, given in Figure 45, is lengthened so as nearly 

 to touch tbe broken leg, which is shown distorted, instead 

 of indicating the injury by the mere distortion of the leg 

 itself as in the charts on Plate XXIV. Tbe bird over 

 the head and connected by a line with it, probably repre- 

 sents the teal as a name-totem. He was perhaps called 

 Broken-Leg after the injury, or perhaps the other inter- 

 preters did not remember bis name, only the circumstance. 



Mato Sapa says: A Minneconjou named Broken-Leg 

 died. 



The Corbusier records for 1847-48 refer to a number of 

 accidents by which legs were broken. See page 142. 



1847-48 — No. I. Mandans kill two Minnecoujous. 



No. II. Two-Man was killed. His totem is drawn — two 

 small man-figures side by side. 



No. III. Two Minneconjou Dakotas killed by tbe Assiniboine In 

 diaus. 



Major Bush says : the wife of an Assiniboine chief named Big-Tbun 

 der bad twins. 



1848-'49. — No. I. Humpback, a Minneconjou. killed. 



Fig. 45.— The- 

 Teal -broke -his- 



