374 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
icine.” The ceremony is indicated by the head of an albino buffalo. A 
more graphic portraiture of the conception of voice is in Fig. 191, rep- 
resenting an antelope and the whistling sound produced by the animal 
on being surprised or alarmed. This is taken from MS. drawing book 
of an Indian prisoner 
at Saint Augustine, 
Fla, now in the 
Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, No. 30664. 
Fig. 192 is the exhi- 
bition of wrestling for 
a turkey, the point of 
interestin the present 
connection being the 
lines from the mouth 
to the objects of con- 
versation. Itis taken 
from the above-men- 
tioned MS. drawing 
book. 
The wrestlers, ac- 
; cording to the foot 
= prints, had evidently 
come together, when, 
meeting the return- 
ing hunter, who is 
wrapped in his blan- 
ket with only one 
foot protruding, they 
separated and threw 
off their blankets, 
leggings, and mocea- 
sins, both endeavor- 
ing to win the tur- 
key, which lies be- 
tween them and the 
donor. 
In Fig. 193, taken 
from the same MS. 
drawing book, the conversation is about the lassoing, shooting, and 
final killing of a buffalo which has wandered to a camp. The dotted 
lines indicate footprints. The Indian drawn under the buffalo having 
secured the animal by the fore feet, so informs his companions, as indi- 
cated by the line drawn from his mouth to the object mentioned; the 
left-hand figure, having also secured the buffalo by the horns, gives his 
nearest comrade an opportunity to strike it with an ax, which he no 
