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wooden inclosures or forts frequently erected by the Indians, and 
especially the Crows. The Crow fort is shown as nearly surrounded, 
and bullets, not arrows or lances, are flying. This is the first instance 
in this chart in which any combat or killing is protrayed where guns 
explicitly appear to be used by Indians, though nothing in the chart 
is at variance with the fact that the Dakotas had for a number of years 
been familiar with firearms. The most recent indications of any 
weapon were those of the arrows piercing the Crow squaw in 1857-58, 
and Brave-Bear in 185455, while the last one before those was the 
lance used in 184849, and those arms might well have been employed 
in all the eases selected, although rifles and muskets were common. 
There is an obvious practical difficulty in picturing, by a single char- 
acter, killing with a bullet, not arising as to arrows, lances, dirks, and 
hatchets, all of which can be and are shown in the chart projecting 
from the wounds made by them. Other pictographs show battles in 
which bullets are denoted by continuous dotted lines, the spots at 
which they take effect being sometimes indicated, and the fact that 
they did hit the object aimed at is expressed by a specially invented 
symbol. Itis, however, to be noted that the bloody wound on the Ree’s 
shoulder (180607) is without any protruding weapon, as if made by a 
bullet. 
More distinct information regarding this fight, the record of which 
concludes the original Lone-Dog chart, has been kindly communicated 
by Mr. Luther 8. Kelly, of Garfield County, Colorado. 
The war party of Uncpapas mentioned charged upon a small trading 
post for the Crows on the Upper Missouri river, at the mouth of Mus- 
selshell river. Usually this post was garrisoned by a few frontiersmen, 
but on that particular day there happened to be a considerable force 
of freighters and hunters. The Indians were afoot and, being concealed 
by the sage brush, got within shooting distance of the fort before being 
discovered. They were easily driven off, and going a short distance 
took shelter from the rain in a circular washout, not having any idea 
of being followed by the whites. Meanwhile the whites organized and 
followed. The surprise was complete, the leading white man only being 
killed. The Indians sang their song and made several breaks to escape, 
but were shot down as fast as they rose above the bank. Twenty-nine 
were killed. 
BATTISTE GOOD’S WINTER COUNT. 
Dr. William H. Corbusier, surgeon, U. S. Army, while stationed in 
1879 and 1880 at Camp Sheridan, Nebraska, near the Pine Ridge Indian 
Agency, Dakota, obtained a copy of this Winter Count from its recorder 
Baptiste, commonly called Battiste Good, a Brulé Dakota, whose Dakotan 
name is given as Wa-po-cta”-xi, translated Brown-Hat. He was then liy- 
ing at the Rose Bud Agency, Dakota, and explained the meaning of the 
pictographs to the Rev. Wm. J. Cleveland, of the last named agency, 
who translated them into English. 
