mallerv.1 ACHIEVEMENTS HIDATSA AND ARIKARA. 187 



Figure 99 represents among the Hidatsa aud Mandans the second per- 

 son to strike a fallen enemy. It represents among the Arikara the first 

 person to strike the fallen enemy. 



Figure 100 denotes the third person to strike the enemy, according to 



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Fir. 98.— First to strike FlG - " — Second to stnko FlG ioo.— Third to strike 



an enemy. Hidatsa. an enemy. Hidatsa. an enemy. Hidatsa. 



the Hidatsa and Mandan; the second person to strike him, according 

 to the Arikara. 



Figure. 101 shows among the Hidatsa and Mandan the fourth person 

 to strike the fallen enemy. This is the highest and last number ; the 

 fifth person to risk the danger is considered brave for venturing so uear 

 the ground held by the enemy, but has no right to wear the mark. 



The same mark among the Arikara represents the person to be the 

 third to strike the enemy. 



Figure 102, according to the Arikara, represents the fourth person 

 to strike the enemy. 



According to the Hidatsa, the wearer of the accompanying mark. 

 Figure 103, would have figured in four encounters; in the two lateral 



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FIG. 101.— Fourth to strike Fir:. 102.— Fiftli to strike Fig. 103— Struck four en- 



an eneiuy. Hidatsa. an enemy. Arikara. emies. Hidatsa. 



ones, each, he was the second to strike the fallen enemy, and in the 

 upper and lower spaces it would signify that he was the third person 

 upon two occasions. 



The mark of a black band, sometimes made by the impress of an 

 actually blackened palm, or drawn natural size or less, was found upon 

 articles of Ojibwa manufacture in the possession of Hidatsa and Arikara 

 Indians at Fort Berthold, Dakota, in 1881. These Indians say it is an 

 old custom, and signifies that the person authorized to wear the mark has 

 killed an enemy. The articles upon which the designs occurred came 

 from Red Lake "Reservation, Minnesota, the Indians of the latter locality 

 frequently going west to Fort Berthold to trade bead and other work 

 for horses. 



Further signs of particular achievements are given in Figures 174, 175, 

 176, 177, aud 179, and others may be noticed frequently in the Dakota 

 Winter Counts. 



