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MALLERY.] BATTISTE GOOD’S WINTER COUNT. 309 
Fig. 339, 1782—83,—“ Killed-the-man-with-the-sear- 
let-blanket-on winter.” It is not known what tribe 
killed him. 
Fig. 340, 178384.—“Soldier-froze-to-death winter.” 
The falling snow and the man’s position with his legs 
drawn up to his abdomen, one hand in an armpit 
and the other in his mouth, are indicative of intense 
cold. 
Fig. 341, 1784~85.—“ The-Oglala-took-the-cedar winter.” During a 
great feast an Oglala declared he was wakan and could 
draw a cedar tree out of the ground. He had previously 
fastened the middle of a stick to the lower end of a 
cedar with a piece of the elastic ligament from the neck 
of the buffalo and then planted the tree with the stick 
crosswise beneath it. He went to this tree, dug away a 
little earth from around it and pulled it partly out of 
the ground and let it spring back again, saying “the 
cedar I drew from the earth has gone home again.” Fic. 341. 
After he had gone some young men dug up the tree and exposed the 
shallow trick. 
Fig. 342, 1785—86.—*“ The-Cheyennes-killed-Shadow’s-father winter.” 
The umbrella signifies, shadow; the arrow which touches 
it, attacked; the three marks under the arrow (not shown 
in the copy), Cheyenne; the blood-stained arrow in the 
man’s body, killed. Shadow’s name and the umbrella in 
the figure intimate that he was the first Dakota to carry 
an umbrella. The advantages of the umbrella were soon 
recognized by them, and the first they obtained from the 
whites were highly prized. It is now considered an in- 
dispensable article in a Sioux outfit. They formerly wore 
a wreath of green leaves or carried green boughs, to 
shade them from the sun, The marks used for Chey- 
enne stand for the scars on their arms or stripes on their sleeves, which 
also gave rise to the gesture-sign for this tribe, see Fig. 495. infra. 
