390 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
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pictorial mark upon the adjedatig or grave-post, thereby sinking the 
personal name which is not generally indicative of the totem. The 
same practice is found in other tribes. The Pueblos depict the gentile 
or totemic pictorial sign upon their various styles of ceramic work. 
Fig. 514, gives examples taken from Dakota drawings, which appear 
to be pictured totemic marks of gentes or clans. If not in every in- 
stance veritable examples, they illustrate the mode of their represen- 
tation as distinct from the mere personal designations mentioned below, 
and yet without positive information in each case, it is not possible to 
decide on their correct assigninent to this section of the present chapter. 
Fig. 515.—Kwakiutl carvings. 
a. Bear-Back. Red-Cloud’s Census. 
This and the six following figures exhibit respectively the portions 
of the bear, viz, the back or chine, the ears, the head, the paw, the 
brains, and the nostrils or muzzle, which are probably the subject of 
taboo and are the sign of a clan or subelan. 
b. Bear’s-Kars, a Brulé, was killed in an Oglala village by the Crows. 
American-Horse’s Winter Count, 1785-86. 
c. Bear’s-Hars was killed in a fight with the Rees. Cloud-Shield’s 
Winter Count, 179394. 
