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Fig. 757.—They capture a great many ante- 
lope by driving them into a pen. Cloud- 
Shield’s Winter Count, 1860—61. 
IG. 757.—Antelope hunting. Da- 
kota. 
Fig. 758.—A woman who had been given to a white 
man by the Dakotas was killed because she ran away 
from him. Cloud-Shield’s Winter Count, 1799-1500. 
The gift of the woman was in fact a sale, and, in ad- 
dition to the crime of marital infidelity, the tribe was 
implicated in a breach of contract. The union line 
below the figures, mentioned before, means husband 
and wife. This picture illustrates, as far as may be 
done pictorially, a Dakotan custom as regards mar- MS 85 Wife's pun: 
riage and the penalty connected with it. 
The following figures relate to several different forms: 
Fig. 759.—They brought in a fine horse 
with feathers tied to his tail. Cloud-Shield’s 
Winter Count, 181011. White-Cow-Killer 
calls it ‘¢Came-with-medicine-on-horse’s-tail 
winter.” This illustrates the ornamentation 
of specially valuable or favorite horses, which, 
however, is not mere ornamentation, but 
often connected with sentiments or symbols 
of a religious character, and as often with 
the totemic, which from another point of view 
may also be regarded as religious. 
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Fic. 759.—Decorated horse. 
Fig. 760.—A young man who was afflicted with smallpox and was 
in his tipi by himself sang his death song and shot himself. 
American-Horse’s Winter Count, 178485. Suicide is more 
common among Indians than is generaily suspected, and 
even boys sometimes take their own lives. A Dakota boy 
at one of the agencies shot himself rather than face his yy. 760—sui- 
companions after his mother had whipped him; and a Pai- “® P*kot 
ute boy at Camp McDermit, Nevada, tried to poison himself with the 
wild parsnip because he was not well and strong like other boys. The 
Paiutes usually eat the wild parsnip when bent on suicide. 
Fig. 761.—A Ree Indian hunting eagles from a hole in ~~ 
the ground was killed by the Two-Kettle Dakotas. The. 
Swaw’s Winter-Count, 180607. The drawing represents 
an Indian in the act of catching an eagle by the legs in 
the manner that the Arikaras were accustomed to catch 
eagles in their earth-traps. They rarely or never shot war 
eagles. The Dakotas probably shot the Arikara in his 
trap just as he put his hand up to grasp the bird. 
FiG. 761.— 
hunting. Ar 
