654 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
distinction made by an antagonistic “surround” and the peaceable ring 
depicted immediately before. 
Fig. 1029.—The Dakotas had a council with the whites on the Mis- 
souri river below the Chey- 
enne agency, near the mouth 
of Bad creek. They had many 
flags which the Good-White- 
Man gavethem with their guns, 
and they erected themon poles 
to show their friendly feelings. 
American - Horse’s Winter 
Count, 180506, This was per- 
haps their meeting with the 
Lewis and Clarke expedition. 
BGs L020- The curved line is drawn to 
represent the council lodge, which they made by 
opening several tipis and uniting them at their sides to form a semicircle. 
The small dashes are for the people. This is acompromise between the 
Indian and the European mode of designating an official assemblage. 
Fie. 1030, 
PLENTY OF FOOD. 
Fig. 1030.—The Dakotas have an abundance of buffalo meat. Cloud- 
Shield’s Winter Count, 1856-57. This is shown by the full drying pole 
on which it was the usage after successful hunts to hang the pieces of 
meat to be dried for preservation. 
Fig. 1031.—The Oglalas had an abundance of buffalo meat and shared 
it with the Brulés, who were short of food. American- 
Horse’s Winter Count, 1817-18. The buffalo hide hung 
on the drying pole, with the buffalo head above 
it, indicates an abundance of meat, as in the D> 
preceding figure. 
Fig. 1032 is taken from Battiste Good’s 
Fig. 1031. Winter Count for the year 174546, in which xy. 1039, 
the drying-pole is as usual supported by two forked sticks or poles. 
This is a variant of the two preceding figures. 
Fig. 1033.—Immense quantities of buffalo meat. The-Swan’s Winter 
Count, 1845-46. This is another form of drying-pole in which a tree 
is used for one of the supports. The pieces of 
meat would not be recognized as such without 
explanation by the preceding figures. 
Fig. 1034 is taken from the Winter 
Count of Battiste Good for the year 
1703-04, The forked stick being one 
of the supports of the drying pole or - 
scaiiold, indicates meat. The irreg- 
Hie UNIS war cireular object means “heap,” — Fis. 1034. 
