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Fig. 709.—In a great fight with the Pawnees the Dakotas 
captured the great medicine arrow which had been taken 
from the Cheyennes, who made it, by the Pawnees. Cloud- 
Shield’s Winter Count, 184544. 
The head of the arrow projects from the bag which con- 
tains it. The delicate waved or spiral lines show that it 
is Sacred. 
White-Cow-Killer calls it “The Great-medicine-arrow- 
comes-in winter.” 
Fig. 709.—Magic 
arrow. 
Battiste Good’s record gives the following for the same year: 
The Dakotas captured it this winter from the Pawnees, and 
was made to distinguish colors by the heraldic scheme, 
of the figure is of an undecided color not requiring specifi- 
arrow. 
Winter Count, 184344. The arrow appears to be in a case 
‘“ Brought-home-the-magic-arrow winter. This arrow originally be- 
the Cheyennes then redeemed it for one hundred horses.” 
man’s body is sable or black, the feathers on the arrow are 
cation. 
Fig. 711.—The great medicine arrow was taken from the 
Pawnees by the Oglalas and Brulés, and returned to the 
marked over with the lines meaning sacredness. 
longed to the Cheyennes, from whom the Pawnees stole it. 
His sign for the year is shown in Fig. 710. An attempt 
which in this cut did not succeed. The upper part of the 
azure or blue, and the shaft, gules or red. The remainder 
Fic. 710.—Magic 
Cheyennes to whom it rightly belonged. American-Horse’s 
Another account of a magic arrow and illustrations of 
other fetichistic objects are in Chap. IX. 
Fic. 711.—Magie 
arrow. 
Pl]. XXXIII is a copy of a cloak or mantle made from the skin of a 
deer, and covered with various mystic paintings. It was made and 
used by the Apaches as a mantle of invisibility, that is, a charmed 
covering for spies which would enable them to pass with impunity 
through the country, and even through the camp of their enemies. In 
this instance the fetichistic power depends upon the devices drawn. 
A similar but not identical pictographie fetich or charm is described 
and illustrated by Capt. Bourke (e) as obtained from a Chiecarahua 
Apache which told when his ponies were lost, and which brought rain. 
The symbols show, inter alia, the rain cloud, and the serpent lightning, 
the raindrops and the cross of the winds of the four cardinal points. 
