556 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fig. 782 shows that the Indian called Two-Feathers, a b, of the Crane 
nation c, and the Buffalo family d, accompanied by fifteen warriors h, 
has made one prisoner f, and taken three scalps g, on his sixth expe- 
dition k, and on the fourth, when he commanded it, 7. 
Fig. 783 relates that the Indian named Two-Arrows a, of the nation 
of the Deer ¢, and the Wolf family d, has gone as an ambassador bear- 
ing the calumet of peace to the Bear nation e, accompanied by thirty 
persons hk. In both figures the Indian is not only represented by his 
“hieroglyph,” but he is also pictured at full length in the first with his 
arms, and in the second holding the calumet and the rattle. 
A historical record relating to a fight between the Ojibwa and the 
Dakota ninety-one years ago is given in Fig. 784. The following nar- 
rative was given by the draftsman of the record, an Ojibwa: 
Wes 
wth l : Bieee=| ‘ WISI), = : 
g g Gg EEA WUMILILMLLSUM AM Lhe, 
h 
Fic. 782.—Record of battle. Fic. 783.—Record of battle. 
Ninety-one winters ago (A. D. 1797) twenty-five Ojibwa were en- 
camped on a small lake, 0, called Zi/zabe/gamik, just west of Mille Lacs, 
Minnesota. The chief’s lodge, a, was erected a short distance from the 
lake, m, where the Indians had been hunting, and as he felt unsafe on 
account of the hostile Sioux he directed some of his warriors to recon- 
noiter south of the lower lake, where they soon discovered a body of 
three hundred of their enemies. The chief of the reconnoitering party, 
b, sent back word for the women and children to be removed to a place 
of safety, but three of the old women refused to go. Their lodges are 
represented in ¢, d,and e. Five Ojibwa escaped through the brush, in 
a northwest direction (indicated in /). 
The Sioux surrounded the lake and the fight took place on the ice. 
Twenty of the Ojibwa were killed, the last to die being the chief of the 
party, who, from appearances, was beaten to death with a tomahawk; 
g represents three bearskins; h, 7, and j, respectively, deer, grouse, and 
turtle, the kinds of game hunted there during the several seasons. 
