592 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fig. 889, 
Many of the Dakotas were drowned in a flood’ caused by 
arise in the Missouri river, in a bend of which 
they were encamped. Cloud-Shield’s Winter 
Count, 182526. The curved line is the bend 
in the river; the waved line is the water, above 
which the tops of the tipis are shown. 
Fia. 889.—River freshet. 
Fig. 890.—Some of the Dakotas were living on 
the bottom lands of the Missouri river, below 
the Whetstone, when the river, which was filled 
with broken ice, rose and flooded their village. 
Many were drowned or else killed by the float- 
ingice. Many of those that escaped climbed on 4 Wy 
cakes of ice or into trees. American-Horse’s 
Winter Count, 182526. Fig. 890.—River freshet. 
GOOD. 
Fig. 891.—Good-Weasel. Red-Cloud’s Census. The character is 
represented with two waving lines passing 
upward from the the mouth in imitation of 
the gesture sign, good talk, as made by 
passing two extended and separated fingers 
(or all fingers separated) upward and for- 
ward from the mouth. This gesture is 
made when referring either to a shaman 
or to a Christian clergyman. It is con- 
nected with the idea of ‘mystie” fre- 
quently mentioned in this work. 
I'1G. 891.—Good weasel. 
HIGH. 
Various modes of delineating this idea are represented as follows: 
Fig, 892.—Top-man. Red-Cloud’s Census. 
This character for Top-man, or more properly — 
“man above,” is drawn a short distance above 
a curved line, which represents the character 
for sky inverted. The gesture for sky is some- 
——, times made by passing the hand from east to 
west, describing an arc. Other pictographs 
for sky are shown in Fig. 
IL), ; 
Sa ee Fig. 893.— High - Cloud. ¢ 
Red-Cloud’s Census. The 
Fic. 893.—High-Cloud. 
Pia. 892—Top-man. light and horizontal ehar- 
acter of the cloud suggests that it is one of those classed by meteor- 
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