632 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
willnotsurviveadefeat. In the same volume, p. 105, he says that when 
a Thlinkit arms himself for war he paints his face and powders his hair 
a brilliantred. He then ornaments his head with a white eagle feather 
as a token of stern, vindictive determination. 
Mr. Dorsey reports that when the Osage men go to steal horses from 
the enemy they paint their faces with charcoal. [Possibly this may be 
for disguise, on the same principle that burglars use black crape.| 
The same authority gives the following description of the Osage paint 
for war parties: 
Before charging the foe the Osage warriors paint themselves anew. This is called 
the death paint. If any of the men die with this paint on them the survivors do 
not put on any other paint. 
All the gentes on the ‘‘ Left” side use the “fire paint,” which is red. It is applied 
by them with the left hand all over the face. And they use prayers about the fire: 
* As the fire has no merey, so should we have none.” Then they put mud on the 
cheek, below the left eye, as wide as two or more fingers. The horse is painted with 
some of the mud on the left cheek, shoulder, and thigh. 
The following extract is from Belden (b): 
The sign paints used by the Sioux Indians are not numerous, but very significant. 
When the warriors return from the warpath and have been successful in bringing 
back scalps, the squaws, as well as the men, paint with vermilion a semicircle in 
front of each ear, The bow of the are is toward the nose and the points of the half- 
circle on the top and bottom of the ear; the eyes are then reddened and all dance 
over the scalps. 
John Lawson (a) says of the North Carolina Indians: 
When they go to war * * * they paint their faces all over red, and commonly 
make a circle of black about one eye and another circle of white about the other, 
while others bedaub their faces with tobacco-pipe clay, lampblack, black lead, and 
divers other colors, ete. 
De Brahm, in documents connected with the History of South 
Carolina (a), reports that the Indians of South Carolina “painted their 
faces red in token of friendship and black in expression of warlike 
intentions.” 
Rey. M. Eells (a) says of the Twana Indians of the Skokomish reser- 
vation that when about to engage in war “they would tamanamus in 
order to be successful and paint themselves with black and red, making 
themselves as hideous as possible.” 
The U.S. Exploring Expedition (b), referring to a tribe near the Sac- 
ramento river, tells that the chie. presented them with a tuft of white 
feathers stuck on a stick about 1 foot long, which was supposed to be 
a token of friendship. 
Dr. Boas, in Am. Anthrop. (b), says of the Snanaimuq that before 
setting out on war expeditions they painted their faces red and black. - 
Peter Martyr (b) says of the Ciguaner Indians: 
The natives came out of the forest painted and daubed with spots. Foritis their 
custom, when they go to war, te daub themselves from the face to the knee with black 
and scarlet or purple color in spots, which color they [obtain] from some curious 
fruits resembling ‘* Pyren,” which they plant and cultivate in their gardens with the 
greatest care. Similarly they also cause the hair to grow in a thousand very curious 
