MALLERY, ] POSSESSION—PRISONER. 599. 
heads are decorated with a crown embellished with feathers; in the left hand is 
placed a white stick covered with swan skin, which is a sort of commander’s baton 
or scepter, as if they represented the chief of the nation [sie] or the nation itself 
which had been vanquished; in the right hand is placed the rattle, and around the 
neck of the most prominent of the slaves the wampum necklace which the war chief 
has given or received when he raised the party and on which the other warriors 
have sealed their engagement. Butif on one hand the prisoners are honored, on 
the other, to make them feel their miserable situation, they are deprived of every- 
thing else; so that they are left entirely naked and made to walk with the arms tied 
behind the back above the elbow. 
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FG. 934.—Lroquois triumph. 
Fig. 935 is taken from Mrs. Eastman (d), and shows a Dakota method 
of recording the taking of prisoners. 
a and ¢ are the prisoners, a being ©) =) = 
a female as denoted by the presence \/ 
of mamm, and ¢ a male; b is the 
person making the capture. It is 
to be noted that the prisoners are 
without hands, to signify their help- 
lessness. fi h 
In Doc. Hist. New York (c¢) is the 
following description of Fig. 936: 
FG. 985.—Prisoners. Dakota. 
On their return, the Iroquois, if they have prisoners or scalps, paint the animal of 
the tribe to which they belong rampant (debout), with a staff on the shoulder along 
which are strung the scalps they may have and in thesame number. After the ani- 
mal are the prisoners they have made, with a chichicois (or gourd filled with beans 
which rattle) in the right hand. If they be women, they represent them with a 
cadenette or queue and a waisteloth. 
