MALLERY.] WINTER COUNTS. 2H 
Feather actually was the chief, Lone-Dog’s chart with its interpreta- 
tion may be independently correct. 
Fig. 201, 1816-17.—‘: Buffalo belly was plenty.” The device 
rudely portrays a side of buffalo. 
Fa, 201. 
Fig. 202, 1817—18.—La Framboise, a Canadian, 
built a trading store with dry timber. The dry- 
ness is shown by the dead tree. La Framboise 
was an old trader among the Dakota, who once 
established himself in the Minnesota valley. His 
name is mentioned by various travelers. 
Fig. 202. 
Fig. 203, 1818-19.—The measles broke out and many died. The de- 
vice in the copy is the same as that for 180102, relating to the small- 
pox, except a very slight difference in the red blotches; and, though 
Lone-Dog’s artistic skill might not have been sufficient to distinctly 
vary the appearance of the two patients, both diseases being 
eruptive, still it is one of the few serious defects in the chart 
that the sign for the two years is so nearly identical that, sepa- 
rated from the continuous record, there would be confusion be- 
tween them. Treating the document as a mere aide-de-mémoire 
no inconvenience would arise, it probably being well known fic. 203. 
that the smallpox epidemic preceded that of the measles; but care is 
generally taken to make some, however minute, distinction between 
the characters. It is also to be noticed that the Indian diagnosis makes 
little distinction between smallpox and measles, so that no important 
pictographic variation could be expected. The head of this figure is 
clearly distinguished from that in 180102. 
Fig. 204, 1819~20.—A nother trading store was built, this 
time by Louis La Conte, at Fort Pierre, Dakota. His tim- 
ber, as one of the Indians consulted especially mentioned, 
was rotten. 
Fie. 204. 
Fig. 205, 182021.—The trader, La Conte, gave Two- 
Arrow a war dress for his bravery. So translated an 
interpreter, and the sign shows the two arrows as the 
warrior’s name-totem; likewise the gable of a house, 
which brings in the trader; also a long strip of black 
tipped with red streaming from the roof, which possibly 
may be the piece of parti-colored material out of which Fig. 205. 
the dress was fashioned. This strip is not intended for sparks and 
