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Fig. 883.—Afraid-of- Elk. Red-Cloud’s Census. 
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Fic. 883.—Afraid-of-Elk. Fig. 884.—A fraid-of-Bull. Fic. 885.—A fraid-of-Bear. 
Fig. 885.—Afraid-of-Bear. Red-Cloud’s Census. 
SOE), Fig. 886.—Matokinajin, The-Bear-Stops. The 
Sis "4 Oglala Roster. The bear is surrounded by a cir- 
= cle of hunters, so is forced to stop. This figure 
» isin no essential respect different from the one 
> preceding, yet the name is suggestive of the con- 
” verse of the fact expressed. In this case the bear 
is forced to stop, and doubtless fear is exhibited 
by that animal and not his hunters. Each of the 
ideas is appropriately expressed, the point of 
consideration being changed. 
Fig. 887 is taken from Copway, a 
loc. cit. It probably represents 
< ‘‘fear,” the concept being the im- 
Fig. 886.—The-Bear-stops. goined sinking or depression of the 
heart and vital organs, as is correspondingly expressed in several lan- 
guages. 
Fia. 887. 
FRESHET. 
This small group shows the Dakotan modes of portraying the 
freshets of the rivers on the banks of which they lived, which were 
often disastrous. Each of the three figures pictures differently the 
same event. 
Fig. 888.—“ Many-Yanktonais-drowned winter.” The river bottom 
on a bend of the Missouri river, where they were 
encamped, was suddenly submerged, when the 
ice broke and many women and children were 
drowned. Battiste Good’s Winter Count 
1825-26. 
Fig. 888.—River freshet. 
