246 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



lenberg, in his historical and geographical description of the northern 



and eastern parts of Europe, Asia, etc. London, 1738. 



The similarity to characters on Figure 185 is obvious. 



Figure 206, also from Strahlenberg, and quoted in Schoolcraft, Vol. 



I, PI. CO, Fig. 4, opp. p. 342, was found in Siberia, 



J? and is identical with the character winch, according to 



v|^ Schoolcraft, is drawn by the Ojibwa to represent speed 



c S and the power of superior knowledge by exaltation to the 



fig. 206. regions of the air, being, in his opinion, a combination of 



bird and man. 

 It is to be noticed that some Ojibwa recently examined regard the 

 character merely as a human figure with outstretched arms, and fringes 

 pendant therefrom. It has, also, a strong resemblance 

 to some of the figures in the Dakota Winter Counts 

 (those for 18.54-55 and 186G-'67, pages 121 and 124, 

 respectively), in which there is no attempt understood 

 to siguify any thing more than a war-dress. 



Figure 207, according to Schoolcraft, Vol. I, PI. 58, 

 No. 58, is the Ojibwa drawing symbolic for an American. 



