600 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
a. This is a person returning from war who has taken a prisoner, killed a man 
and woman, whose scalps hang from the end of a stick that he carries. b. The 
prisoner. ¢. Chichicois (or a gourd), which he holds in the hand. d. These are 
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Fic. 936.—Prisoners. Troquois. 
cords attached to his neck, arms, and girdle. e¢. This is the scalp of aman; what 
is joined on one side is the scalp-lock. f. This is the scalp of a woman; they paint 
it with the hair thin. 
The expression prisoner and slave are often 
convertible, The following from Kingsborough 
(/), explaining this illustration reproduced as 
Fig. 937, refers in terms to slavery. ‘The figures 
are those of the wife and son of a cacique who 
rebelled against Montezuma, and who, having 
been conquered, was strangled. The ‘collars’ 
upon their necks show that they have been 
reduced to slavery.” 
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Fig. 938.—Short-Bull. Red- 
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Cloud’s Census, No. 16. The 1h 
buffalo is markedly short even 
Fic. 937.—Prisoners. Mexico, to distortion. Fig. 938.Short-Bull. 
SIGHT, 
Fig.939.—Sees-the-Enemy. Red-Cloud’s Census. In this collection the 
eye is not indicated except where that organ is directly connected with 
the significance of the name. Here 
its mere presence suggests that vision 
is the subject matter. But, in ad- 
dition, the object above the head is 
probably a hand mirror, which by its 
reflection is supposed to “see” the 
objects reflected, The plains Indians 
RE hh Ti 8 make use of such mirrors not only 
Enemy in their face painting but in flash Fig, 940—Crier. 
signaling. 
Fig. 940.—In a fight with the Mandans, Crier was shot in the head 
with a gun. Cloud-Shield’s Winter Count, 1827/28, This figure is 
