446 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
atthatagency. Owing to a disagreement the agent refused to acknowl- 
edge that chief as head of the Indians at the agency, and named another 
as the official chief. Many of the Indians exhibited their allegiance to 
Red-Cloud by having their names attached in their own pictorial style 
to a document showing their votes and number. This filled seven 
sheets of ordinary manila paper and was sent to Washington. While 
in the custody of Dr. T. A. Bland, of that city, it was loaned by him to 
the Bureau of Ethnology to be copied by photography. The different 
sheets were apparently drawn by different persons, as the drawings of 
human heads vary enough to indicate individuality. This arrange- 
ment seems to imply seven bands or, perhaps, gentes. 
Dr. V. T. McGillicuddy, who at the time was Indian agent at Pine 
Ridge Agency, Dakota, in correspondence gives the impression that the 
several pictographs representing names were attached as signatures 
by the several individuals to a subscription list for Dr. Bland, before 
mentioned, who was the editor of The Council Fire, in support of that 
publication and with an agreement that each should give 25 cents. 
The document in that view would be a subscription list, but the sub- 
scribers were, in fact, the adherents of Red-Cloud. Whatever was the 
motive for this collection of pictured names, its interest consists in 
the mode of their portrayal, together with the assurance that they were 
the spontaneous and genuine work of the Indians concerned. 
In addition to the personal names which immediately follow, a con- 
siderable number of the 289 pictographie names appear elsewhere in 
this paper under the various heads of Tribal Designations, Ideography, 
Conventionalizing, Customs, special Comparison, ete. 
Interspersed among the personal names taken from the above men- 
tioned list are others selected from the Oglala Roster, the origin of 
which is explained above, and the several winter counts of The-Flame, 
The-Swan, American-Horse, and Cloud-Shield, mentioned, respectively, 
in Chap. x, Sec. 2. The authority is in each case attached to the picto- 
graph with the translation of the Indian name, and in some cases with 
the name in the original. 
Rey. J. Owen Dorsey, in Vol. xxxtv of the Proceedings of the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of Science and in the American 
Anthropologist for July, 1890, gives valuable notes on the subject of 
Indian personal names and also has made oral suggestions to the present 
writer. Some of those may be considered with reference to the list 
now presented. He thinks that the frequent use of color names is 
from a mythical or symbolic significance attributed to the colors. 
Also the word translated “iron,” or “metal,” is connected with the 
color blue, the object called iron being always painted blue when 
colors are used, and that color is mystically connected with the water 
powers of the Dakotan mythology. The frequent use of the terms 
“Little” and “Big,” with or without graphic differentiation, may be 
as the terms young and old, junior and senior, are employed by civi- 
lized people, but the expressions in other cases may refer to the size 
