282 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fig. 230, 1845—46.—Plenty of buffalo meat, which 
is represented as hung upon poles and trees to 
dry. This device has become the conventional 
sign for plenty and frequently appears in the sey- 
eral charts. 
Fig. 230. 
Fig. 231, 184647.—Broken-Leg died. Rev. Dr. William- 
son says he knew him. He was a Brulé. There is enough 
difference between this device and those for 1808~09 and 
1832~33 to distinguish each. 
Fig. 231. 
two small man figures side by side. Another interpretation 
rZ 2 Fig. 232, 1847~48.—Two-Man was killed. His totem is drawn, 
Fie. 232. explains the figure as indicating twins. 
Fig. 233, 1848-49.—Humpback was killed. An 
ornamented lance pierces the distorted back. Other 
records name him Broken-Back. He was a distin- 
guished chief of the Minneconjous. 
Fia, 233. 
nNANa 
QANNA — Fig. 234, 1849-50.—The Crows stole a large drove of 
CANA horses (it is said eight hundred) from the Brulés. The 
circle is a design for a camp or corral from which a number 
of horse-tracks are departing. 
Fie, 235, 1850—’51.—The character is a distinct drawing of a buffalo 
EC= containing a human figure. Clément translated that 
“a buttalo cow was killed in that year and an old 
woman found in her belly ;” also that all the Indians 
" Fia. 235. believed this. Good-Wood, examined through an- 
other interpreter, could or would give no explanation except that it was 
“about their religion.” The Dakotas have long believed in the appear- 
ance from time to time of a monstrous animal that swallows human . 
beings. This superstition was perhaps suggested by the bones of mas- 
todons, often found in the territory of those Indians; and, the buffalo 
being the largest living auimal known to them, its name was given to 
the legendary monster, in which nomenclature they were not wholly 
wrong, as the horns of the fossil Bison latifrons are 10 feet in length. 
