MALLERY. | OBSCURE—OPPOSITION. 597 
OBSCURE. 
Fig. 922.—Ring-Cloud. Red-Cloud’s Census. The semicircle for 
cloud is the reverse in execution to 
that shown in Fig. 893. The ring is 
FR SS = partially surrounded by the cloud. Fig. 923.—Cloud-Ring. 
i Fig. 923.—Cloud-Ring. Here 
Red-Cloud’s Census. 
the outline of the ring is intentionally contorted and 
blurred, thus becoming obscure. 
Fig. 924.—Fog. Red-Cloud’s Census. The obscurity here can only 
be appreciated by comparison with the other figures of 
the chart. The outline is drawn broad and with a blurred 
and in part double line, and there is no distinguishing 
mark of identity, as if to suggest that the man was so 
much obscured in the fog as not to be recognizable. 
Fig. 922,—Ring-Cloud. 
Fia. 924.—Fog. OPPOSITION. 
The following two figures, 925 and 926, are introduced to show the 
opposition in attitude, which would not be understood without knowl- 
edge of the fact that these are perhaps the only instances in a collection 
of nearly three hundred in which the characterizing faces are turned 
to the right, all others being turned to the left. This shows the oppo- 
site of normality, i. e., opposition, as suggested in each case, with a 
different shade of meaning. 
Fig. 925.—Kills-Back. Red-Cloud’s Census. 
Here the backward concept is presented by the \ 
unusual attitude. The coup stick or lance is 
supposed to be wielded in the reverse manner. Leds / \) 
Fig. 926.—Keeps-the- 
G Battle. Red - Cloud’s 
n Census. The concept is 
4 thatof stubborn retreat 
> ) while fighting against 
the advancing foe. 
FiG. 925.—Kills-Back, Fig. 927.—Keeps-the- 
Battle. Red-Cloud’sCensus. This is the same 
name as the preceding, 
: \ but the opposition sug- 
gested is that which is 
usual in pictographs of a 
battle, with the impor- 
tant addition of the op- 
posed arrow points being 
attached together by 
striking the same object, 
and possibly being connected by an imaginary 
knot. This keeps or continues the struggle. 
Fig. 928.—Okicize-tawa, His-Fight. The Og- Fia. 928.— His-Fight. 
Fic. 926. —Keeps-the-Battle 
Fic. 927.—Keeps-the-Battle. 
