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afraid-of-his-Horses.” A common interpretation about ‘ afraid-of-his- 
horses” is that the man valued bis horses so much that he was afraid 
of losing them. The representative of the name, however, stated to the 
writer that the correct name was Ta-shunka Kokipapi, and that the 
true meaning was ‘ He-whose-horse-they-fear”; literally ‘‘ His-horse- 
they-fear-it.” 
A large number of pictorially rendered Indian names attached to 
deeds and treaties have been published, e. g.,in Documents relating to 
the Colonial History of New York (b). Few of them are of interest, 
and they generally suggest the assistance of practiced penmen. In the 
collections mentioned some of the Dutch marks are in the same general 
style as those of the Indians. 
Mr. P. W. Norris, late of the Bureau of Ethnology, had a buffalo robe 
containing a record of exploits, which was drawn by Black-Crow, a Da- 
Fic. 638.—Loud-Talker. 
kota warrior. The successful warrior is represented in each instance 
upright, the accompanying figure being always in a recumbent posture, 
representing the enemy who was slain. The peculiar feature of these 
pictographs is that instead of depicting the victim’s personal name with 
a connecting line, the object denoting his name is placed above the 
head of the victor in each instance, and a line connects the character 
with his mouth. The latter thus seems to proclaim the name of his 
victim. <A pipe is also figured between the victor and the vanquished, 
showing that he is entitled to smoke a pipe of celebration. 
A copy of the whole record was shown to the Mdewakantanwan Da- 
kotas, near Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in 1883, and the character repro- 
duced in Fig. 638, about which there was the most doubt, was explained 
as signifying ‘‘many tongues,” or Loud-Talker. 
The circle at the end of the line running from the mouth contains a 
number of lanceolate forms, one-half of each of which is black, the other 
