576 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
From the same volume, page 9, the following extract is made, deserib- 
ing Fig. 823: 
b. This is the way they mark when they have been to war, and when there is a 
bar extending from one mark to the other it signifies that, after having been in bat- 
tle, he did not come back to his village, and that he- returned with other parties 
whom he met or formed. 
c. This arrow, which is broken, denotes that they were wounded in this expedi- 
tion. 
d. Thus they denote that the belts which they gave to raise a war party and to 
avenge the death of some one, belonging to them or to some of the same tribe. 
e. He has gone back to fight without having entered his village. 
y. Aman whom he killed on the field of battle, who had a bow and arrow. 
g. These are two men, whom he took prisoners, one of whom had a hatchet and 
the other a gun in his hand. 
gg. This is a woman who is designated only by a species of waistcloth. 
GT. L wy 
Fic. 823.—-Martial exploits. Lroquois. 
Fig. 824 is taken from the Winter Count of Battiste Good for the 
year 185354, 
He calls the year Cross-Bear-died-on-the-hunt winter. 
The character on the extreme left hand is a “travail,” and means 
they moved; the buffalo, to hunt buffalo; the bear with 
ae mouth open and paw advanced, cross-bear. The invo- 
lute character frequently repeated in Battiste’s record 
A, signifies pain in the stomach and intestines, resulting 
in death. In this group of characters there is not only 
the brief story, an obituary notice, but an ideographic 
Fig. 84.—Crogs- Mark for a particular kind of death, a noticeable name- 
Bear's death. — totem, and a presentation of the Siouan mode of trans- 
portation. : 
The word “travail” may require explanation. It refers to the pecu- 
liar sledge which is used by many tribes of Indians for the purpose of 
transportation. It is used on the surtace of the ground when not cov- 
ered with snow even more than when snow prevails. In print the 
word is more generally found in the plural, where it is spelled “tra- 
