318 
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PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
380. 
+. 381. 
F1G. 382 
Fig. 380, 1823~24.—“ General- -first-appeared- 
and -the- Dakotas-aided-in-an-attack-on-the-Rees win- 
ter.” Also ‘“Much-corn winter.” The gun and the 
arrow in contact with the ear of corn show that both 
whites and Indians fought the Rees. This refers to 
Gen. Leavenworth’s expedition against the Arikara 
in 1823, when several hundred Dakotas were his al- 
lies. This expedition is mentioned several times in 
this work. 
Fig. 381, 1824~25,—* Killed-two-piecking-plums win- 
ter.” A Dakota war party surprised and killed two 
Pawnees who were gathering plums. 
382, 1825~26.—“‘ Many- Yanktonais-drowned winter.” The 
river bottom ona bend of the Missouri river, where 
they were encamped, was suddenly submerged, when 
the ice broke and many women and children were 
drowned. All the Winter Counts refer to this flood. 
Fig. 383, 1826~27.—* A te-a-whistle-and-died winter.” 
Six Dakotas on the war path (shown by bow and 
arrow) had nearly perished with hunger, when they 
found and ate the rotting carcass of an old buffalo, on 
which the wolves had been feeding. They were seized 
soon after with pains in the stomach, the abdomen 
swelled, and gas poured from mouth and anus, and 
they died of a whistle or from eating a whistle. The 
sound of gas escaping from the mouth is illustrated 
in the figure. 
Fig.384, 182728.—* Wore-snowshoes winter.” The 
Snow was very deep. 
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