MALLERY.] PERUVIAN BIOGRAPHY. 575 
lated copse of shrubbery, where they were killed at leisure. The five 
guns within the inclosure represent the five persons armed. 
The Arikara are nearly always delineated in these pictures wearing 
the topknot of hair, a fashion specially prevalent among the Absaroka, 
though as the latter were the most inveterate enemies of the Sioux, and 
as the word Pallani for Arikara is applied to all enemies, the Crow 
custom may have been depicted as a generic mark, 
Wiener (e) gives the following account of the tablet found at Man- 
siche, reproduced as Fig. 821, one-fifth actual size: 
It gives all the descriptive elements of the life of the deceased; in fact his biogra- 
phy. He wasa chieftain of royal blood (vide 
the red planache with five double plumes). 
He commandedan entire tribe. He had a 
military command (v. the mace which he holds 
in his right hand). He had taken part in 
three battles (v. the three arms which three 
times proved his strength). He was a judge 
in his district (v. the sign of the speaking- 
trumpet in the center). He had under him 
four judges (v. the four signs of the speaking- 
trumpet in the corners). He had during his 
administration irrigated the country (v. the 
designs which surround the painting) ; and he 
had constructed great buildings (v. the check- 
ers surrounding the meanders). He had 
busied himself besides all that in the raising 
of cattle (v. the indications of llamas). He 
had lived 42 years (v. the blocks, which indi- 
cate years, just as the rings indicate the age : 
of trees). He had had five children, three sons and two daughters (indicated by 
the little drops of sperm). Such is the life of this person, written by ideography on 
a tablet, which at first would be taken as a fantasy of an infant painter, 
Fic. 821.—Peruvian biography. 
SECTION 2. 
PARTICULAR EXPLOITS OR EVENTS. 
In the Doe. Hist. N. Y. (b) is an illustration, presented here as Fig. 
822, of an Iroquois “returning from hunting, who has slept two nights 
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Fic, 822.—Hunting record. Iroquois. 
on the hunting ground and killed three does; for when they are bucks 
they add their antlers.” 
