280 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
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r la Ne Fig. 218, 1833-34.—The stars fell,” as the In- 
j 4 dians all agreed. This was the great meteoric 
1) Mf shower observed all over the United States on the 
a night of November 12 of that year. In this chart 
the moon is black and the stars are red. 
Fig. 219, 183455.—The chief Medicine-Hide was killed. The 
device shows the body as bloody, but not the war bonnet, by 
which it is distinguished from the character for 1830—31. 
Fig, 219. 
Fig. 220, 1835~36.—Lame-Deer shot a Crow Indian with an arrow; 
drew it out and shot him again with the same arrow. The 
oe is drawing the arrow from the first wound. This 
| is another instance of the principle on which events were 
selected. Many fights occurred of greater moment, but 
with no incident precisely like this. Lame-Deer was a dis- 
Fic.220. tinguished chief among the hostiles in 1876. His camp of 
five hundred and ten lodges was surprised and destroyed by Gen. Miles, 
and four hundred and fifty horses, mules, and ponies were captured. 
Fig. 221, 1836~37.—Band’s-Father, chief of the Two Kettles, died. 
The device is nearly the same as that for 1816~17, denoting 
plenty of buffalo belly. 
Interpreter Fielder throws light on the subject by saying that 
this character was used to designate the year when The- 
Fic.o21, Breast, father of The-Band, a Minneconjou, died. The-Band 
himself died in 1875, on Powder river. His name was O-ye-a-pee. The 
character was, therefore, the Buffalo-Breast, a personal name. 
Fig. 222, 1837—38.—Commemorates a remarkably sue- 
cessful hunt, in which it is said 100 elk were killed. 
The drawing of the elk is good enough to distinguish it 
from the other quadrupeds in this chart. 
Fig. 223, 1838—39.—A dirt lodge was built for Iron-Horn. The other 
dirt lodge (181516) has a mark of ownership, which this has 
not. A chief of the Minneconjous is mentioned in Gen. Har- 
ney’s report in 1856 under the name of The-One-Iron-Horn. 
Fic. 223. The word translated * iron” in this case and appearing thus 
several times in the charts does not always mean the metal of that name. 
According to Rey. J. Owen Dorsey it has a inystie significance, in some 
manner connected with water and with water spirits. In pictographs 
objects called iron are painted blue when that color can be obtained. 
