310 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fig. 343, 178687. — “ Tron-Head-Band-killed-on-war- 
path winter.” They formerly carried burdens on their 
backs, hung from a band passed across the forehead. This 
man had a band of iron which is shown on his head. So 
said the interpreter, but probably the band was not of the 
metal iron. The word so translated has a double mean- 
ing and is connected with religious ideas of water, spirit, 
and the color blue. 
Fic. 343 
Fig. 344, 1787~88.—“ Left-the-heyoka-man-behind winter.” A certain 
man was heyoka—that is, his mind was disordered and 
he went about the village bedecked with feathers singing 
to himself, and, while so, joined a war party. On sighting 
the enemy the party fled, and called to him to turn back 
also; as he was heyoka, he construed everything that was 
said to him as meaning the very opposite, and therefore, 
instead of turning back, he went forward and was killed. 
J If they had only had sense enough to tell him to go on, 
m4. he would then have run away, but the thoughtless people 
talked to him just as if he had been in an ordinary condition and of 
course were responsible for his death. The mental condition of this 
man and another device for the event are explained by other records 
(see Fig. 651). 
Fig. 345, 1788~89.— Many-crows-died winter.” Other 
records for the same year give as the explanation of the 
figure and the reason for its selection that the crows froze 
to death because of the intense cold. 
Fig. 346, 1789~90,—“ Killed-two-Gros- V entres-on-the- 
ice winter.” 
Fig. 347, 1790~91.—** Carried-a-flag-about-with-them 
winter.” They went to all the surrounding tribes with 
the flag, but for what purpose is unknown. So said the 
interpreter, but The-Flame’s chart explains the figure 
by the statement: “The first United States flags in the 
country brought by United States troops.” 
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