MALLERY. | WHIRLWIND—WINTER. 605 
be-boisseen. But the figure does not appear upon any of the pottery. The myth ex- 
plains that a stranger came among the people, when a great whirlwind blew all 
the vegetation from the surface of the earth and all the water from its courses. With 
a flint he caught these symbols upon a rock, the etching of which is now in Keam’s 
Canon, Arizona Territory. It is 17 inches long and 8 inches across. He told them 
that he was the keeper of breath. The whirlwind and the air which men breathe 
comes from this keeper’s mouth. 
Fig. 966 is a copy of part of the decoration on a pot 
taken from a mound in Missouri, published in Second 
Annual Report of the Bureau Ethnology, Pl. L111, fig. 
11. On the authority of Rey. 8. D. Hinman, it is the 
conventional device among the Dakotas to represent 
a whirlwind. 
. 966.—W hirwind. 
WINTER—COLD—SNOW. 
Fig. 967.—Glue, an Oglala, froze to death on his way to a Brulé vil- 
lage. American-Horse’s Winter Count, 1791-92. A glue-stick is rep- 
resented back of his head. Glue, made from 
mt the hoofs of buffalo, is used to fasten arrow- 
heads to the shaft and is carried about on sticks. 
The cloud from which hail or snow is falling eae 
represents winter. 
FG. 967.—F roze : a ct x 
to death. Fig. 968.—A Dakota, named Glue, froze to 
death. Cloud-Shield’s Winter Count, 1820~21. This figure 
is introduced to corroborate of the preceding one as re- 
gards the name Glue. It gives another representation of 
the glue stick. 
Fig. 969.—A Dakota named Stabber froze to death. American- 
Horse’s Winter Count, 178283. The sign for 
winter is the same as before, but doubled, as 
if of twofold power or excessively severe. 
Fig. 970.—The winter was so cold that many 
crows froze to death. Cloud-Shield’s Winter 
Count, 178889. White-Cow-Killer says 
“Many-black-crows-died winter.” 
FIG. ee ** ~The crow falling stiff and motionless is a2 >hre 
good symbol for the effect of excessive cold. 
Fig. 971.—The snow was very deep. American-Horse’s 
Winter Count, 1827~28. The piled-up snow 
around the bottoms of the tipis is graphic; 
no other material than snow could make that fin \| 
kind of surrounding heap. 
Fig. 972.—From Copway, page 135, is the Fie. 972.—Cold, 
representation of ‘ cold,” “‘ snow. ae 
Fie. 968.— Froze 
to death. 
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Fic, 971. 
