MALLERY.] DISEASE PICTURED. 589 
Fig. 869.—All the Dakotas had measles, very fatal. Swau’s Winter 
Count, 1818-19. Battiste Good says: 
“ Smallpox-used -them-up-again win- 
cy ter.” They, i. e., the Dakotas, at this 
4 time lived on the Little White river, 
’ about 20 miles above the Rosebud 
Fig. 869.—Measles. agency. The character in Battiste 
Good’s chart is presented here in Fig. 870 as a variant. 
Fig. 871.—Dakota war party ate a buffalo and all  4y4q. 970.—Measles or 
died. Swan’s Winter Count, 182627. Battiste Good ie 
calls the same year, ‘‘ Ate-a-whis- 
tle-and-died winter,” Fig. 872, and 
explains that six Dakotas on the 
warpath had nearly perished with 
Fig, sil Ate buflle hunger, when they found and ate 
the rotting carcass of an old buffalo, on which the 
wolves had been feeding. They were seized soon after 
with pains in the stomach, their bellies swelled, and 
gas poured from the mouth and the anus, and they 
“died of a whistle,” or from eating a whistle. The?! *?- Died of “whis- 
sound of gas escaping from the mouth is illustrated in the figure. The 
character on the abdomen and on its right may be considered to be the 
ideograph for pain in that part of the body. 
Fig. 875.—Many people died of smallpox. Cloud-Shield’s Winter 
Count, 1782~83. The charts all record two suecessive winters of 
smallpox, but American-Horse 
makes the first year of the epidemic 
one year later than that of Battiste 
: Good, and Cloud-Shield makes it 
Fic. 873.Smallpox. two years later. ia. 874.—Smallpox. 
Fig. 874.—Many died of smallpox. American-Horse’s Winter Count, 
1780-81. Here the smallpox marks are on the face and neck of a Da- 
kota, as indicated by the arrangement of the hair. 
Kingsborough (e) explains Fig. 875 by these words in 
the text: ‘‘In the year of Seven Rabbits, or in 1538, 
many of the people died of the smallpox.” This may be 
compared with the two preceding figures. 
Fig. 876.—Many died ofthe cramps. American-Horse’s 
Winter Count, 1849-50. The cramps 
were those of Asiatic cholera, which 
was epidemic in the United States at 
that time, and was carried to the plains 
by the Californiaand Oregon emigrants. 
: The position of the man is very sug- ins 
“Q gestive of cholera. ISS 
Fie. peeieneee Fig. 877.—Many women died in child- ~ 
Mexicans birth. Cloud-Shield’s Winter Count, F16-876.—Died of cramps. 
1798-99. 
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