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The letter was written to a man of the Mud Puppy totem, as indicated 
ind. 
i. The road leading to the lodge occupied by the recipient of the 
letter. 
kand/. Lakes near which the lodges are built. 
In examining ¢, the writer’s hand is seen protruding from an opening 
to denote beckoning and to indicate which lodge to visit. The clear 
indications of the locality serve as well as if in a city a young woman 
had sent an invitation to her young man to call at a certain street and 
number. 
Fig. 472 is a letter sent by mail from a Southern Cheyenne, named 
Turtle-following-his-Wife, at the Cheyenne and Arapahe Agency, In- 
dian Territory, to his son Little-Man, at the Pine Ridge A gency, Dakota. 
It was drawn on a half-sheet of ordinary writing paper, without a word 
Fic. 471.—Ojibwa love letter. 
written, aud was inclosed in an envelope, which was addressed to 
“ Little-Man, Cheyenne, Pine Ridge Agency,” in the ordinary manner, 
written by some one atthe first named agency. The letter was evidently 
understood by Little-Man, as he immediately called upon Dr. V. T. 
MecGillyeuddy, Indian agent at Pine Ridge Agency, and was aware 
that the sum of $53 had been placed to his credit for the purpose of 
enabling him to pay his expenses in going the long journey to his 
father’s home in Indian Territory. Dr. MeGillyeuddy had, by the same 
mail, received a letter from Agent Dyer, inclosing $53, and explaining 
the reason for its being sent, which enabled him also to understand the 
pictographic letter. With the above explanation it very clearly shows, 
over the head of the figure to the left, the turtle following the turtle’s 
wife united with the head of the figure by a line, and over the head of 
the other figure, also united by a line to it, is a litthke man. Also over 
the right arm of the last-mentioned figure is another little man in the act 
of springing or advancing toward Turtle-following-his- Wife, from whose 
