598 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
lala Roster. The opposed guns and tracks indicate the fight in which 
this warrior was conspicuous and probably victorious. This figure is 
introduced here as typical of simple opposition in battie. 
Fig. 929.—Battiste Good’s Winter Count, 
1836237. An encounter is represented between 
two tribes, separated by the banks of a river, 
from which arrows are fired across the water at Fic. 929.—River fight. 
the opposing party. The vertical lines represent the banks, while the 
opposing arrows denote a fight or an encounter. 
POSSESSION, 
Fig. 930.—Owns-the-Arrows. Red- 
Cloud’s Census. This is a common mode 
of expressing possession by exhibition 
in hand. 
Fig. 931.—Pesto-yuha, Has-something- 
sharp (weapon). Oglala Roster. The 
weapon or sharp utensil is held in front 
I'ic. 930.—Owns the ‘ 5 FG. 931.— Has some- 
arrows. to denote its possession. thing sharp* 
PRISONER. 
This group shows the several modes of expressing the idea of a 
prisoner. 
Fig. 932.—The Ponkas attacked two lodges of Oglalas, killed some 
of the people, and made the rest prisoners. The Oglalas went to the 
Ponka village a short time afterward and took their people from the 
Ponkas. American-Horse’s Winter 
Count, 1802-03. 
In the figure an Oglala has a prisoner 
by the arm leading him 
away. The arrow in- 
qo dicates that they were 
ready to fight. The 
hand grasping the fore 
arm is the ideogram of 
prisoner. 
Fic. 932.—Prisoner. Fig. 933.— Takes- 
Dakota. MiG. 933.—Takes e J. 
akota Enemy. Red-Cloud’s Fic. 933.—Takes enemy 
Census. This man is represented as not killed nor even wounded. 
He is touched by the coup stick or feathered lance, when he can 
not escape, and becomes a prisoner. : 
Lafitau (d) gives the following account descriptive of Fig. 934, which 
reminds of the classic Roman parade of prisoners in triumph: 
Those who have charge of the prisoners prepare them for this ceremony, which ‘is 
a sort of triumph, having for them something of glory and of sorrow at the same 
time; for, whether it is desired to do them honor or to enhance the triumph of the 
conquerors, they paint their faces black and red as on a solemn feast day. Their 
