176 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



The information yet obtained from the author of the pictograph con- 

 cerning its details is meager, and as it will probably be procured no 

 unimportant conjectures are now hazarded. It is presented for the 

 ideography shown, which may in most cases be understood from the 

 translation of the several names into English as given in the preceding 

 list. A few remarks of explanation, occurring to the writer, may be 

 added: 



No. 34, on plate LIV, with the translation Red-earth woman, appears 

 from the scalp lock and the warrior's necklace to be a man, and Red- 

 earth-woman to be his name. 



No. 62 on Plate LVIT, probably refers to an Ogalala who was called 

 Arapaho, the interpretation, as well as the blue cloud, being in the 

 Dakota language " Blue cloud," a term by which the Arapaho Indians 

 are known to the Dakotas, as several times mentioned in this paper. In 

 No. Co, Plate LVII, the cloud is drawn iu blue, the searching being de- 

 rived from the expression of that idea in gesture bypassing the extended 

 index of one hand (or both) forward from the eye, then from right to 

 left, as if indicating various uncertain localities before the person, i. e., 

 searching for something. The lines from the eyes are in imitation of 

 this gesture. 



In No. 77, Plate LVIII, is a reproduction of the character given in 

 Red-Cloud's Census, No. 133. See Plate LXVII. The figure appears, 

 according to the explanation given by several Ogalala Dakota Indians, 

 to signify the course of a whirlwind, with the transverse lines in imita- 

 tion of the circular movement of the air, dirt, leaves, etc., observed 

 during such aerial disturbances. 



In No. 78 of the same plate the lines above the bird's head agaiu 

 appear to signify sacred, mystic, usually termed " medicine" in other 

 records. Similar lines are iu No. 04, Plate LYII. 



RED-CLOIB'S CENSUS. 



The pictorial census, shown in Plates LIX to LXXIX, was prepared 

 under the direction of Red-Cloud, chief of the Dakota at Pine Ridge 

 Agency, Dakota Territory, about two years ago. The individuals re- 

 ferred to and enumerated are the adherents of Red-Cloud, and do not 

 represent all the Indians at that Agency. Owing to some disagreement 

 the agent refused to acknowledge that chief as head of the Indians at 

 the agency, and named another as the official chief. The Indians under 

 Red-Cloud exhibited their allegiance to him by attaching, or having 

 their names attached, to seven sheets of ordinary manilla paper, which 

 were sent to Washington and, while in the custody of Dr. T. A. Bland, 

 of that city, were kindly loaned by him to the Bureau of Ethnology to 

 be copied by photography. The different sheets were apparently drawn 

 by different persons, as the drawings of human heads vary enough to 

 indicate individuality. 



The first sheet of the original series contains in the present series of 

 plates Nos. 1 -130 ; the second sheet, Nos. 131-174 ; third sheet, Nos. 175- 



