532 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
A similar hunting scene by canoe, in which, however, the game was 
deer, is given in Fig, 743, The drawing is on birch bark, and was made 
by an old Indian named Ojibwa, now living at White Earth, Minnesota, 
an intimate friend and associate of the late chief Hole-in-the-Day. 
Ojibwa is supposed to be actor as well as depictor. He shows his 
lodges in a, where he resided many years ago; b is a lake; ©, ¢, ¢, ¢ 
represent four deer, one of which is shown only by the horns prema: 
ing above a clump of brush near the lake; e represents Ojibwa in 
c 
b 
a c G 
Fic. 743,—Hunting in canoe. Ojibwa. 
his canoe, d, floating on the river, h, h; gis a pine torch, giving light 
and smoke, erected on the bow of the canoe, the light being thrown 
forward from a curve slice of birch bark at f, its bright inner surface 
acting as a reflector, The whole means that during one hunt, by night, 
the narrator shot four deer at the places indicated. 
The accompanying Fig. 744 is reproduced from a drawing also incised 
on birch bark by Ojibwa, and relates to a hunting expedition made by 
his father and two companions, all of, whom are represented by three 
human forms near the left-hand upper line. The circle at the left is 
Fic. 744.—Record of hunting. Ojibwa. 
Red Cedar lake, Minnesota; a river is shown flowing northward, and 
another toward the east, having several indications of lakes which this 
river passes through or drains. The circle within the lake denotes an 
island upon which the party camped, as is shown by the trail leading 
from the human forms to the island. Around the lake are a number of 
short lines which signify trees, indicating a wooded shore. The first 
animal form to the right of the human figures is a porcupine; the next 
a bittern. The two shelters in the right-hand upper corner indicate 
