482 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
In another song from Tanner, p. 345, sung only by the midé@’, is the 
drawing, the right hand character of the same figure, of a similar ani- 
mal with a bar across the throat, signifying, no doubt, its emerging or 
appearance from the surface of the ground. 
Nah-ne-bah o-sa aun neen-no ne-mah-che oos-sa ya-ah-ne-no. [Twice.] 
I walk about in the nighttime. 4 
This first figure represents the wild-cat, to whom, on account of his vigilance, the 
medicines for the cure of diseases were committed. The meaning probably is that 
to those who have the shrewdness, the watchfulness, and intelligence of the wild-cat, 
is intrusted the knowledge of those powerful remedies, which, in the opinion of the 
Indians, not only control life and avail to the restoration of health but give an 
almost unlimited power over animals and birds. 
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Fic. 670.—Mythie wild-cats. Ojibway. 
Schooleraft, part 11, p. 224, describes Fig. 671 as follows: 
It was drawn by Little Hill, a Winnebago chief of the upper Mississippi, west. He 
represents it as their medicine animal. He says that this animal is seldom seen; that 
it is only seen by medicine men after severe fasting. He has a piece of bone which 
he asserts was taken from this animal. He considers it a potent medicine and uses 
it by filing a small piece in water. He has also a small piece of native copper which 
he uses in the same manner, and entertains like notions of its sovereign virtues. 
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Fic. 671.—Winnebago magic animal. 
The four preceding figures are to be compared with those relating to 
the Piasa rock. See Figs. 40 and 41, supra. 
Fig. 672.—A Minneconjou Dakota, having killed a 
ews buffalo cow, found an old woman inside of her. The- 
i Swan’s Winter Count, 185051. 
For remarks upon this statement see Lone-Dog’s Winter 
Count for 1850751, supra. : 
MG me’ ~~ Graphic representations of Atotarka and of the Great 
Heads are shown in Mrs. Erminie A. Smith’s Myths of the Iroquois, in 
the Second Ainual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Several illus- 
trations of myths and mythic animals appear in the present work in 
Chap. Ix, Sees. 4 and 5, 
