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PICTOGRAPIIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



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Figure 69 is the tribal sign of the Arikara made by the Dakotas, taken 

 from the winter count of Battiste Good for the year 1823 



-'24, which he calls "General first-appeared-and- 



the Dakotas-aided-in-an-attack-on-the-Rees winter " ; also 

 " Much-corn winter.' 1 



The gun and the arrow in contact with the ear of corn 

 sbow that both whites and Indians fought the Eees. 



The ear of corn signifies ''Ree" or Arikara Indians, 

 who are designated in gesture language as " Corn Shell- 

 ers." 



Figure 70 is the tribal designation of the Omahas by 

 the Dakotas, taken from the winter count of Battiste 

 Good. 

 A human head with cropped hair and red cheeks signifies Omaha 

 This tribe cuts the hair short and uses red paint upon the 

 cheeks very extensively. This character is of frequent occur- 

 rence in Battiste Good's count. 



Figure 71 is the tribal designation of the Pani by the Da- 

 kotas, taken from Battiste Good's winter count for the year 

 1701-'()5. 

 says: The lower legs are ornamented with slight projections re- 

 sembling the marks on the bottom of an ear of corn 

 [husks], and signifies Pani. 



A pictograph for Cheyenne is given in Figure 78, page 

 173, with some remarks. 



Figure 72 is the tribal designation for Assiniboiue by 

 the Dakotas from winter count of Battiste Good 

 for the year 170!)-' 10. 



The Dakota pictorial sign for Assiniboine or 

 Hohe, which means the voice, or, as some say, 

 the voice of the musk-ox, is the outline of the 

 vocal organs, as they conceive them, and rep- 

 resents the upper lip and roof of the mouth, the tongue, the lower lip, 

 and chin and neck. The view is lateral, and resembles the sectional 

 aspect of the mouth and tongue. 



Figure 73 is the tribal designation of the Gros Ventres, by the same 

 tribe and on the same authority. 



Two Gros Ventres were killed on the ice by the Dakotas in 1789-'90. 

 The two are designated by two spots of blood on the ice, and killed is 

 expressed by the blood-tipped arrow against the fig- 

 ure of the man above. The long hair, with the red 

 forehead, denotes the Gros Ventre. The red fore- 

 head illustrates the manner of applying war paint, 

 and applies, also, to the Arikara and Absaroka In- 

 dians, in other Dakota records. The horizontal blue 

 band signifies ice. 

 Stephen Powers says (Coutrib. to N. A. Ethnology, III, p. 109) the 



Fig. 71.— Pani. 



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Fig. 72.— As- 

 siniboine. 



Groa Ventre. 



