516 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
division on the right and on the left side are oval objects with latticed- 
figured or scaly skin. These are two whales. In the middle, between 
them, are a frog and a deer, and below a serpent. Above, toward the 
hoop of the drum, is fastened an owl’s feather. 
The lower left hand design (c) in the same figure has represented in 
the upper half seven figures reminding one of horses. These are the 
horses, bura, going to heaven, i. e., their sacrifice. Above them are 
two circles emitting light, the sun and the moon; on the right of the 
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Fic. 722.—Tartar and Mongol drums. 
horses are three trees; under a horizontal line on the left is a serpent; 
on the right a fish, the kerbuleik, the whale according to Verbitski, 
literally the bay-fish. 
The lower right-hand design (d) in the same figure has a drawing on 
the outside, a circle divided by horizontal bars into halves. The field of 
the upper half is divided into three strata, the first stratum of which 
is heaven, the second the rainbow, and in the lower stratum the stars. 
On the left side the sun, and the crescent moon on the right side; the 
goat, trees, and an undefined figure, which is not given in the drawing, 
