378 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
represents the year in which a Minneconjou chief was stabbed in the 
shoulder by a Gros Ventre, and afterwards named “Dead Arm” or 
“Killed Arm.” <At first the figure was supposed to show the perma- 
nent drawing up of the arm by anchylosis, but that would not be likely 
to be the result of the wound described, and with knowledge of the gest- 
ure the meaning is more clear. 
Fig. 202, taken from Report upon the Reconnaissance of Northwestern 
Fic. 202. 
Wyoming, &c., Washington, 1875, p. 207, Fig. 53, found in the Wind 
River Valley, Wyoming Territory, was interpreted by members of a Sho- 
shoni and Banak delegation to Washington in 1880 as “ an Indian killed 
another.” The latter is very roughly delineated in the horizontal figure, 
butis also represented by the line under the hand of the upright figure, 
meaning the same individual. At the right is the scalp taken and the 
two feathers showing the dead warrior’s rank. The arm nearest the 
prostrate foe shows the gesture for killed. 
The same gesture appears in Fig. 203, from the same authority and 
locality. The scalp is here held forth, and the 
numeral one is designated by the stroke at the 
bottom. 
Fig. 204, from the same locality and author- 
ity, was also interpreted by the Shoshoni and 
Banak. It appears from their description that 
a Blackfoot had attacked the habitation of 
some of hisown people. Theright-handupper 
figure represents his horse with the lance sus- 
pended from the side. The lower figure illus- 
trates the log house built against a stream. 
| The dots are the prints of the horse’s hoofs, 
while the two lines running outward from the 
upper inclosure show that two thrusts of the 
lance were made over the wall of the house, thus killing the occupant 
and securing two bows and five arrows, as represented in the left-hand 
group. The right-hand figure of that group shows the hand raised in 
the attitude of making the gesture for hill. 
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Wie. 203. 
