MALLERY.] BATTISTE GOOD’S WINTER COUNT. 295 
Fig. 263, 1706~07.—“ Killed - the- Gros - Ventre - with- 
snowshoes-on winter.” A Gros- Ventre (Hidatsa), while 
hunting buffalo on snowshoes, was chased by the Da- 
kotas. He accidentally dropped a snowshoe, and, being 
then unable to get through the snow fast enough, they 
gained on him, wounded him in the leg, and then killed 
him. The Gros-Ventres and the Crows are tribes of the 
same nation, and are therefore both represented with 
striped or spotted hair, which denotes the red clay they . 
apply to it. FIG. 263. 
Fig. 264, 1707-’08.—“Many-kettle winter.” A man—l man— 
named Corn, killed (3) his wife, 1 woman, 
and ran off. He remained away for a year, y yap Lory —t- 
and then came back, bringing three guns ZL =] 
with him, and told the people that the English, LaOVIM IT 
who had given him these guns, which were the 
first known to the Dakotas, wanted him to 
bring his friends to see them. Fifteen of the 
people accordingly went with him, and when 
they returned brought home a lot of kettles or 
pots. These were the first they ever saw. Some 
numerical marks for reference and the written 
words in the above are retained as perhaps 
the worst specimens of Battiste’s mixture of civilized methods with the 
aboriginal system of pictography. See remarks above, page 283. 
Fia. 264. 
Fig. 265, 1708~09.—“ Brought-home-Omaha-horses win- 
ter.” The cropped head over the herse denotes Omaha. 
Fia. 265. 
Fig. 266, 1709~10.—* Brought-home- Assiniboin-horses us 
winter.” The Dakota sign for Assiniboin, or Hohe, which 
means the voice, or, as some say, the voice of the musk ox, 
is the outline of the vocal organs, as the Dakotas conceive 
them, and represents the upper lip and roof of the mouth, 
the tongue, the lower lip and chin, and the neck. > 
Fia. 266. 
&, 
Fig. 267, 1710—11.—*‘ The-war-parties-met, or killed- 
three-on-each-side winter.” A war party of Assini- 
boins met one of Dakotas, and in the fight which = 
ensued three were killed on each side. << 
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Fia. 267. 
