386 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
PAWNEE. 
Fig. 507 is the tribal designation of the Pawnee by 
the Dakotas, taken from Battiste Good’s Winter 
Count for the year 170405, 
He says: The lower part of the legs are orna- 
mented with slight projections resembling the husks 
on the bottom of an ear of corn. 
Fic. 507.—Pawnee. 
Fig. 508.—Brulés kill «a number of Pawnees. 
The-Flame’s Winter Count, 1873-74. 
This is the abbreviated or conventionalized form 
of the one preceding. 
Fic. 508.—Pawnee. 
< Fig. 509.—They killed many Pawnees on the 
Republican river. Cloud-Shield’s Winter Count, 
187374. 
Here the arrangement of the hair makes the dis- 
tinction. 
Fic, 509.—Pawnee. 
In this connection it is useful to quote Dunbar (a): 
The tribal mark of the Pawnees in their pictographie or historic painting was the 
scalp lock dressed to stand nearly erect or curving slightly backwards, somewhat 
like a horn. This. in order that it should retain its position, was filled with ver- 
million or other pigment, and sometimes lengthened by means of a tuft of horse hair 
skillfully appended so as to form a trail back over the shoulders. ‘This usage was 
undoubtedly the origin of the name Pawnee. * * ~*  Itismost probably derived 
from pd-rik-i, a horn, and seems to have been once used by the Pawnees themselves to 
designate their peculiar scalp lock. From the fact that this was the most noticeable 
feature in their costume, the name came naturally to be the denominative term of 
the tribe. 
PONKA. 
EE Fig.510.—The Ponkas came and attacked a village, 
= notwithstanding peace had just been made with them. 
American-Horse’s Winter Count, 177879. 
Some elk hair which is used to form a ridge about 
Fig. 510.—Ponka. 8 inches long and 2 in breadth, worn from the fore- 
head to the back of the neck, and a feather, represent Ponka. Horse 
tracks are used for horses. Attack isindicated by marks whieh repre- 
sent bullet marks, and which convey the idea that the bullet struck. 
The marks are derived from the gesture-sign ‘it struck.” See Chapter 
XVILI, section 4, 
| ed 
Fr 
Ee 
re 
CANRAAHARA 
