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P1CTOGRAPIIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



No. 



The remark made above (page 176) in couuectiou with the Ogalala 

 Roster, acknowledging the paucity of direct information as to details 

 while presenting the pictographs as sufficiently interpreted for the 

 present purposes by the translation of the personal names, may be here 

 repeated. The following notes are, however, subjoined as of some as- 

 sistance to the reader: 



No. 2. Top-man, or more properly "man above," is drawn a short 

 distance above a curved line, which represents the character for sky 

 inverted. The gesture for sky is sometimes made by passing the hand 

 from east to west describing an arc. The Ojibwa pictograph for the 

 same occurs in Plate IV, No. 1, beneath which a bird appears. 



No. 9. The character is represented with two waving lines passing 

 upward from the mouth, in imitation of the gesture-sign good talk, 

 spiritual tall-, as made by passing two extended and separated fingers 

 (or all fingers separated) upward and forward from the mouth. This 

 gesture is made when referring either to a shaman or to a christian 

 clergyman, or to a house of worship, and the name seems to have beeu 



