268 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
that of Lone-Dog and from each other, removed any inference arising 
from the above-mentioned coincidence in beginning with the present 
century. The following copies of charts, substantially the same as that 
of Lone-Dog, are now or have been in the possession of the present 
writer: 
1. A chart made and kept by Bo-i/-de, The-Flame, a Dakota, who, in 
1877, lived near Fort Sully, Dakota. 
The facsimile copy is on a cotton cloth about a yard square and in 
black and red, thus far similar to the copy of Lone-Dog’s chart, but 
the arrangement is different. The character for the first year men- 
tioned appears in the lower left-hand corner, and the record proceeds 
toward the right to the extremity of the cloth, then crossing toward 
the left and again toward the right at the edge of the cloth, and so 
throughout, in the style called boustrophedon. It thus answers the 
same purpose of orderly arrangement, allowing constant additions, like 
the more circular spiral of Lone-Dog. This record is for the years 
178687 to 187677, thus commencing earlier and ending later than 
that of Lone-Dog. 
2. A Minneconjou chief, The-Swan, kept another record on the dressed 
skin of an antelope or deer, claiming that it had been preserved in his 
tamily for seventy years. 
The characters are arranged in a spiral similar to those in Lone-Dog’s 
chart, but more oblong in form. The course of the spiral is from left 
to right, not from right to left. 
3. Another chart was kindly loaned to the writer by Bvt. Maj. 
Joseph Bush, captain Twenty-second U.S. Infantry. It was procured 
by him in 1870 at the Cheyenne Agency. This copy is one yard by 
three-fourths of a yard, spiral, beginning in the center, from right to 
left. The figures are substantially the same as those in Lone-Dog’s 
chart, with which it coincides in time, except that it ends at 1869-70, 
but the interpretation differs from that accompanying the latter in a 
few particulars. 
4. The chart of Mato Sapa, Black-Bear. He was a Minneconjou 
warrior, residing in 1865 and 1869 on the Cheyenne Agency reserva- 
tion, on the Missouri river, near the mouth of the Cheyenne river. 
This copy is on a smaller scale than that of Lone-Dog, being a flat 
and elongated spiral, 2 feet 6 inches by 1 foot 6 inches. The spiral 
reads from right to left. This chart, which begins like that of Lone- 
Dog, ends with the years 186869. 
5. A most important and interesting Winter Count is that made by 
Battiste Good, a Brulé Dakota, which was kindly contributed by Dr. 
Widiam H. Corbusier, surgeon U.S. Army. It begins with peculiar 
cyclic devices from the year A. D. 900, and in thirteen figures embraces 
the time to A. D. 1700, all these devices being connected with myths, 
and some of them showing European influence. From 1700-01 to 
187980 a separate character is given for each year, with its interpre- 
