MALLERY. | TRIBAL DESIGNATIONS. axis) 
not always consistent. It is therefore probable that the several animals 
designated constitute the true and ancient totemic emblems, and that 
the accompaniment of the canoes is a modern differentiation. 
b The Maresquite or Amalecite emblem. Two Indians in a canoe, 
both with poles, following a muskrat. 
c The Miemac emblem. Two Indians, both with paddles, in a canoe 
built with high middle parts familarly called “humpback,” following a 
deer. 
d The Penobscot emblem. Two Indians in a canoe, one with a pad- 
dle and the other with a pole, following an otter. 
In Margry (a) is an account, written about 1722, of the “Principal 
divisions of the Sioux and their distinctive marks,” thus translated : 
There are from twenty to twenty-six villages of Scionx and they comprise the 
nations of the prairies: 
(1) The Ouatabatonha, or Scioux des Riviéres, living on the St. Croix river or 
Lake de Ja Folle-Avoine which is below, and 15 leagues from the Serpent river. 
Their distinctive sign is a bear wounded in the neck. 
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Fic, 483.—Eastern Algonquian tribal designations. 
(2) The Menesouhatoba, or Scioux des Lacs, having for their mark a bear wounded 
in the neck. 
(3) The Matatoba, or Scioux des Prairies, having for their mark a fox with an 
arrow in its mouth. 
(4) The Hictoba, or Scioux de la Chasse, having for their symbol the elk. 
(5) The Titoba, or Scioux des Prairies, whose emblem is the deer. It bears a bow 
on its horns. 
We have as yet had no commerce save with five nations. The Titoba live 80 
leagues west of Sault Saint-Antoine. 
The above early, though meager, notice will serve as an introduction 
to the following series of pictorial tribal signs, all drawn by Sioux 
Indians, and many of them representing tribal divisions of the Siouan 
linguistic stock. The history and authority of the several ‘ Winter 
Counts” mentioned are referred to supra, chapter x, section 2. Red- 
Cloud’s census and the Oglala roster are also described below. Ex- 
planations of some figures are added which have no reference to the 
present topic, but which seemed necessary and could not be separated 
and transferred to more appropriate division without undue multiplica- 
tion of figures and text. 
