MALI. KICV. I 



FRAUDS IMITATED PICTOGRAPH. 



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expression in gesture language, signifies a brave heart; increased num- 

 bers indicating much or many, i. e., a large brave heart. 



The second figure, a circle inclosing a triradiate character, refers to 

 tbe persona] totem. Tlie character in the middle resembles, to some 

 extent, the pictograph sometimes found to rep- 

 resent stars, though in the latter the lines center 

 upon the disks and not at a common point. 



The seven triangular characters represent the 

 lodges of a village to which the individual to 

 wh^iu reference is made belongs. 



The serpentine line immediately below these 

 signifies a stream or river, near which the village 

 is located. 



The two persons holding guns in their left 

 hands, together with another having a spear, 

 appear to be the companions of the speaker, all 

 of whom are members of the turtle gens, as shown 

 by that reptile. 



The curve from left to right is a representa- 

 tion of the sky, the sun having appeared upon 

 the left or eastern horizon when the transaction 

 below mentioned was enacted. In an explana- 

 tion by gesture, or by pictograph, the speaker 

 always faces the south, or conducts himself as 

 if he did so, and begins on the left side to con- 

 vey the idea of morning, if day ; the hand, or 

 line, is drawn all the way from the eastern hori- 

 zon to the western. The above, then, represents 

 the morning when a female — headless body of 

 a woman — a member of the crane gens, was 

 killed. 



The figure of a bear below is the same appar- 



( WSrrg^n. 



ently as number one, though turned to the right. 

 The heart is reversed to denote sadness, grief, 

 remorse, as expressed in gesture-language, and 

 to atone for the misdeed committed in the pro- 

 ceeding the pipe is brought and offering made 

 to the "Great Spirit." 



Altogether, the act depicted appears to have 

 been accidental, the woman belonging to the 

 same tribe, as can be learned from the gens of 



which she was a member. The regret or sorrow signified in the bear, 

 next to the last figure, corresponds with that supposition, as such feel- 

 ings would not be congruous to the Indian in the case of an enemy. 



The point of interest in this pictograph is, that the figures are very 

 skillfully copied from the numerous characters of the same kind repre- 



FlG. 208.— Speointi u uf imita- 

 ted pictograph. 



