312 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fie. 353. 
Fig. 352, 1795-96. — “ The-Rees-stood-the-frozen- 
man-up-with-the-buffalo-stomach -in-his-hand win- 
ter.” The body of a Dakota who had been killed 
in an encounter with the Rees (Pawnees), and had 
been left behind, frozen. The Rees dragged it into 
their village, propped it up with a stick, and hung 
a buffalo stomach filled with ice in one hand to 
make sport of it. The buffalo stomach was in com- 
mon use at that time as a water-jug. 
Fig. 353, 1796-97,—“ W ears-the- W ar- Bonnet-died 
winter.” He did not die this winter, but received 
a wound in the abdomen from which the arrowhead 
could not be extracted, and he died of the ‘belly- 
ache” years after. 
Fig. 354, 1897-98.—“* Took-the-God-Woman-captive winter.” A Da- 
kota war party captured a woman—tribe unknown—who, in order to 
PG. 354. 
gain their respect, cried out, “I am a Wakan- 
Tanka,” meaning that she belonged to God, where- 
upon they let her go unharmed. This is the origin 
of their name for God (Wakan Tanka, the Great 
Holy, or Supernatural One). They had never heard 
of a Supernatural Being before, but had offered their 
prayers to the sun, the earth, and many other objects, 
believing they were endowed with spirits. [Those 
are the remarks of Battiste Good, who is only half 
correct, being doubtless influenced by missionary teaching. The term 
is much older and signifies mystic or unknown. | 
Fig. 355, 179899.—“‘ Many-women-died-in-child- 
birth winter.” They died of bellyache. The con- 
voluted sign for pain in the abdominal region has _ 
appeared before. Cloud-Shield’s winter count for 
the same year records the same mortality among 
the women which was perhaps an epidemic of puer- 
peral fever. 
