EXPLANATION OF PLATE ('IX 



The original of tins picture was drawn in colored inks on buckskin by Yellow 

 Nose, a Ute captive among the Cheyenne, in 1891. It was obtained from him by the 

 author and is now deposited in the National Museum at Washington. Besides being 

 a particularly one specimen of Indian pictography, it gives an excellent idea of the 

 ghost dance as it was ;it that time among the Cheyenne and Arapaho. The dancers 

 are in full costume, with paint and feathers. The women of the two tribes are 

 plain!} distinguished bj the arrangement of their hair, the Cheyenne women having 

 the hair braided at the side, while the Arapaho women wear it hanging loosely . Two 

 of the women carry children ou their backs. < >ne ot the men cat ties the hii i/uii wheel, 

 another a shinny stick, and a woman holds out the sacred crow, while several wave 

 handkerchiefs which aid in producing the hypnotic eifect. In the center are several 

 persons with arms outstretched and rigid, while at one side is seen the medicine- 

 man hypnotizing a subject who stretche out toward him a blue hand kerchief. The 

 spotted object on the ground behind the medicine-man is a shawl which has fallen 

 from the shoulders of the woman standius; near. 



