MALutBY.] red-cloud's CENSUS. 181 



translated here as "good," without sufficient emphasis, being probably 

 more with the idea of "mystic." 



No. 15. The gesture for come or to call to one's self is shown in this 

 figure. 



No. 24. The semicircle for cloud is the reverse in conception to that 

 shown above in No. 2. 



No. 20. Arapaho, in Dakota, magpiyato— Hue cloud — is here shown 

 by a circular cloud, drawn in blue in the original, inclosing the head 

 of a man. 



No. 38. Night appears to be indicated by the black circle around the 

 head, suggested by the covering over with darkness, as shown in the 

 gesture for night bypassing both flat hands from their respective sides 

 inwards and downwards before the body. The sign for Mil is denoted 

 here by the bow iu contact with the head, a custom in practice among 

 the Dakota of striking the dead enemy with the bow or coup stick. See 

 also Figure 130, page 211. 



No. 43. Night is here shown by the curve for sky, and the suspension, 

 beneath it, of a star, or more properly in Dakota signification, a night 

 sun — the moon. 



No. 59. Cloud is drawn in blue in the original; old is signified by 

 drawing a staff in the hand o" 'he man. The gesture for old is made 

 in imitation of walking with a staff. 



No. 69. This drawing is similar to No. 38. The differentiation is suf- 

 ficient to allow of a distinction between the two characters, each rep- 

 resenting the same name, though two different men. 



No. 131. The uppermost character is said to be drawn in imitation of 

 a number of fallen leaves lying against one another, and has reference 

 to the season when leaves fall — autumn. 



No. 101. The thunder-bird is here drawn with five lines — voices — is- 

 suing from the mouth. 



No. 201. The waving lines above the head signify sacred, and are 

 made in gesture in a similar manner as that for prayer and voice iu 

 No. 9. 



No. 236. This person is also portrayed in a recent Dakota record, 

 where the character is represented by the "woman seated" only. The 

 name of this man is not "Sits-like-a- Woman," but High- Wolf — Shiiuka 

 manita wa D galia. This is an instance of giving one name iu a piclo- 

 graph and retaining another by which the man is known iu camp to his 

 companions. 



No. 250. The word medicine is in the Indian sense, before explained, 

 and would be more correctly expressed by the word sacred, or mystic, 

 as is also indicated by the waving lines issuing from the mouth. 



No. 289. The character for sacred again appears, attached to the end 

 of the liue issuing from the mouth. 



