588 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
DIRECTION. 
This title has been selected as being the most comprehensive one for 
the five following figures. The first shows a moccasin with a serpentine 
track, at the farthest end of which is an 
angular design, indicating leadership as 
well as the direction taken. This suggests ; 
the leader of a war party conducting his 
band over an uncertain trail. Thesecond 
is explanatory of the first. That the chief 
goes in front is indicated in a manner the 
reverse of that which would appear in the 
designs common in our military text-books. 
He is supposed to be in the opening in the _ 
angle of the advance and not at its apex. 
The third figure show asteadfast leadership 
in the determined straight direction of at- aS SRO es 
tack against the enemy. This is still more ideographic- 
fi ally represented by the single strong straight line show- 
F16.863--Direction Ing that he “Don’t turn” in the fourth figure of this group. 
— Fig. 863.—Warrior. Red -Cloud’s fe 
Census. The name does not give any 
idea of the design. 
Fig. 864.—Goes-in- Front. Red- é 
Cloud’s Census. & 
Fig. 865.— Don’t-turn.  Red- 
Cloud’s Census. This means that 
the warrior don’t—that is, won’t— 
turn from his direct course, 
Fig. 866.— Don’t-turn. Red 
) Cloud’s Census. This figure is a 
variant of the last, and a body of 
Fig. 865.—Don't-turn. mounted men following the leader, 
all on horseback as shown by the lunules. 
Fig. 867.—Tunweya-gli, Returning - Scout. The 
Oglala Roster. The returning is ingeniously repre- 
sented by the line curving backward and returning to the point of 
starting. The two balls above the head are simply two fixed points, 
which establish the course of the line. 
DISEASE. 
Fig. 868.—Many had the whooping 
cough. American-Horse’s Winter Count, 
1813-14. The cough is represented by 
the lines issuing from the man’s mouth, 
but the characteristics of the disease "6. %68—Whooping 
cough. 
Fic, 866.—Don't-turn. 
Fic. 867.— Returning : 
Scout. are better expressed in the three charts 
of the Lone-Dog system, Figs. 196, 197, and 198. 
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