582 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
scalp. The scalp is shown above the figure of the human head, while 
the weapon with which he struck the Sioux is also shown. This is the 
war club. The lower division of the figure is similar to the upper. 
In the pursuit of the Sioux, who had come to Fort Berthold on another 
occasion to steal horses, Lean-Wolf assisted in capturing and killing 
three of the marauders. In the left-hand group of the three human 
heads he is shown to have killed an enemy; in the second he was the 
third to strike a Sioux after he was shot, but took his scalp, and in the 
third, or right hand, he was the fourth to strike the fallen enemy. 
A record on ivory shown as Fig, 844 was obtained by Dr. Hoffman 
in San Francisco, California, in 1882, and was interpreted to him by an 
Alaskan native. The story represents the success of a hunt; the 
animals desired are shown, as well as those which were secured. 
The following is the explanation of the characters: 
a, b, deer; c, porcupine; d, winter, or permanent, habitation. The 
cross-piece resting upon two vertical poles constitutes the rack, used 
for drying fish; e, one of the natives occupying the same lodge with the 
recorder; /, the hunter whose exploits are narrated; g, h, i, beavers; 
j,k, 1, m, n, martens; 0, a weasel, according to the interpretation, 
although there are no specific characters to identify it as different 
from the preceding; p, land otter; q, a bear; 7, a fox; s, a walrus; ¢, 
a seal; uw, a wolf. 
By comparing the illustration with the text it will be observed that 
all the animals secured are turned toward the house of the speaker, 
while the heads of those animals desired, but not obtained, are turned 
away from it. 
The following is the text in the Kiatexamut dialect of the Innuit 
language as dictated by the Alaskan, with his own literal translation 
into English: 
HAui-nu-na-ga hui-pu-qtt-a pi-eu-qu-li-amus/-qu-li-qnut. Pa-mu-qtu-lit’ 
I, (from) my place. I went hunting (for) skins. martens 
(settlement.) (animals) 
ta-qi-mén, a-mi-da-duk’ a-xla-luk’, 4-qui-A-muk pi-qut-a a-xla-luk’; ku-qu- 
five, weasel one, land otter caught one; 
lu-ht-nu-miik’ a-xla-luk’, tun/-du-muk ti-gu qli-u-gi me-li-ga-nuk’, 
wolf one, deer (1) killed two, 
pé-luk pi-nai-u-nuk, ni-nuk pit’-qu-ni, ma-klak-muk’ pit/-qu-ni, a-ci-a- 
beaver three, porcupine (I) caught none, seal (1) caught none, 
na-muk pit/-qu-ni, ua-qi-la-muk pit/-qu-ni, ta-gi-xa-muk pit’-qu-ni. 
walrus (1) caught none, fox (I) caught none, bear (1) caught none. 
