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e, according to the Arikara, represents the fourth person to strike 
the enemy. 
According to the Hidatsa, the wearer of the mark / had figured in 
four encounters; in those recorded by the marks in each of the two 
lateral spaces he was the second to strike the fallen enemy, and the 
marks in the upper and lower spaces signify that he was the third 
person upon two other occasions. 
The marks atc, in Fig. 572, may be compared with Fig. 
575. The head of the victim in this instance is a white 
man. Such drawings are not made upon the person or 
clothing of the hero, but upon buffalo robes or other sub 
stances used for record of biographical events. 
Fig. 573.—Record ot 
exploits. 
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The marks at d, in Fig. 572, are drawn on records in A 
the mode shown in Fig. 574. oa 
Fic. 574.—Record of 
exploits. 
Illustrations of the actual mode of wearing several of the above 
devices appear in Fig. 575, drawn by a Hidatsa. 
Fig. 575.— Exploit marks as worn 
