mallert.] CORBDSIER WINTER COUNTS, 1799 1814. 135 



No. II. Nino white men came to trade. The thiee covered heads 

 represent the white men. 



White-Oow-Killer calls it " Eight-Dakotas-killed winter." 



1SOO-'07.— No. I. Black-Rock, a Dakota, was killed by the Crows. A 

 rock is represented above his head. He was killed with a bow and 

 arrow and was scalped. 



No. II. The Dakotas killed an Omaha in the night. 



White-Oow-Killer calls it " Killed-while-huntiug-eagles winter." 



1807-'08. — No. I. Broken-Leg was killed by the Pawnees. His leg 

 had been broken by a bullet in a previous fight with the Pawnees. 



No. II. Many people camped together and had many flags flying. 



'White-Cow-killer calls it " Red-shirt-killed Winter." 



180S-'09. — No. I. Little-Beaver's trading house was burned down. 



No. II. A Brule" was found dead under a tree which had fallen on 

 him. 



White-Cow-Killer calls it " Blue-Blanket's father-dead winter." 



1S00-'10.— No. I. Black-Rock was killed by the Crows. His brother, 

 whose name he had taken, was killed by the Crows three years before. 



No. II. Little-Beaver's house was burned. 



White-Oow-Killer says," Little-Beaver's (the white man) house-burned- 

 down winter." 



1S10-'11.— No. I. Red-Shirt, a Dakota, was killed by the Crows while 

 looking for his ponies near Old Woman's Fork. 



No. II. They brought in a fine horse with feathers tied to his tail. 



White Cow-Killer calls it "Came-with-medicine-on-horse's-tail winter." 



1811-12. — No. I. They caught many wild horses south of the Platte 

 River. 



No. II. They had very little buffalo meat, as the empty drying pole 

 indicates, but plenty of ducks in the fall. 



White-Cow-Killer calls it " Catching-wild-horses winter." 



1812-'13.— No. I. Big-Waist's father killed. 



No. II. Big-Owl killed. 



White-Cow-Killer calls it " Big-Belly's-father-killed winter." 



1813-14. — No. I. Many had the whooping-cough. The cough is rep- 

 resented by the lines issuing from the man's mouth. 



No. II. Food was very scarce and they had to live on acorns. The 

 tree is intended for an oak and the marks beneath it for acorns. 



White-Cow-Killer calls it " Six-Rees-killed winter." 



1S14-'15. — No. I. The Dakotas went to a Kaiowa village, about G miles 

 from Scott's Bluff, and near the mouth of Horse Creek, to treat for 

 peace ; but their intentions were frustrated by one of their number, who 

 drove his hatchet into a Kaiowa's head. 



No. II. They made peace with the Pawnees. The man with the blue 

 forehead is a Pawnee, the other is a Dakota, whose body is smeared 

 with clay. The four arrows show that they had been at war, and the 

 clasped hands denote peace. 



White Cow-Killer calls it "Kaiowa-hit-on-head-with-axe winter." 



