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No. II. Humpback was killed. Au ornamented lance pierces the dis- 

 torted back. 



No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota named Broken-Back was killed by the 

 Crow Indians at Black Hills. . 



Major Bush says: A Minneconjou, Broken-Back, was killed by Crows. 



1849-'50. — No. I. Crows steal all the Dakotas' horses. 



No. II. The Crows stole a large drove of horses (it is said eight hun- 

 dred) from the Bruits. The circle may denote multitude, at least one 

 hundred, but probably is a simple design for a camp or corral from 

 which a number of horse-tracks are departing. 



No. III. Crow Indians stole two hundred horses from the Minneconjou 

 Dakotas near Black Hills. 



Interpreter A. Lavary says: Bruits were at the headwaters of White 

 River, about 75 miles from Fort Laramie, Wyoming. The Dakotas sur 

 prised the Crows in 1849, killed ten, and took one prisoner, because he 

 was a man dressed in woman's clothes, and next winter the Crows 

 stole six hundred horses from the Brules. See page 142. 



1850-'51. — No. I. Cow with old woman in her belly. Cloven hoof 

 not shown. 



No. II. The character is a distinct drawing of a buffalo containing a 

 human figure. Clement translated that " a buffalo cow was killed in 

 that year, and an old woman found in her belly"; also that all the In- 

 dians believed this. Good-Wood, examined through another interpre- 

 ter, could or -would give no explanation, except that it was "about their 

 religion." At first the writer suspected that the medicine men had 

 manufactured some pretended portent out of a foetus taken from a real 

 cow, but the Dakotas have long believed in the appearance from time 

 to time of a monstrous animal that swallows human beings. This 

 superstition was perhaps suggested by the bones of mastodons, often 

 found in the territory of those Indians ; and the buffalo being the largest 

 living animal known to them, its name was given to the legendary mon- 

 ster, in which nomenclature they were not wholly wrong, as the horns 

 of the fossil Bison latifrons are 10 feet in length. The medicine men, 

 perhaps, announced, in 1850, that a squaw who had disappeared was 

 swallowed by the mammoth, which was then on its periodical visit, and 

 must be propitiated. 



No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota, having killed a buffalo cow, found an 

 old woman inside of her. 



Memorandum from interpreter : A small party of Dakotas, two or 

 three young men, returning unsuccessful from a buffalo hunt, told this 

 story, and it is implicitly believed by the Dakotas. 



Major Bush suggests that perhaps some old squaw left to die sought 

 the carcass of a buffalo for shelter and then died. He has known that 

 to occur. 



1851-'52.— No. I. Peace made with the Crows. 



