656 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fig. 1042.—They had to sell many mules and horses to get food, as . 
they were starving. 
OCloud-Shield’s Win- 
ter Count, 1868-69. 
White -Cow- Killer 
calls it ‘‘ Mules-sold- 
by-hungry-Sioux win- 
\ ter.” The figure is 
understood as a con- 
Fic. 1042. veutionalized sign by 
referguce to the historic fact mentioned. 
The line of union between the horses’necks 
shows that the subject-matter was not a 
horse trade, but that both of the animals, 
i. e., many, were disposed of. 
Fig. 1045,—Kingsborough (/) gives the 
pictograph recording that “In the year of BiG. 1043. 
One Rabbit and A. D. 1454 so severe a famine occurred that the people 
died of starvation.” It is reproduced in Fig 1045, 
STARVATION. 
Fig. 1044.—Many horses were lost by starvation, as the snow was so 
deep they couldn’t get at the grass. Cloud-Shield’s Winter Count, 1 
186566. 
Fig. 1045, from the record of Battiste Good for the year «) } 
172021, signifies starvation, denoted by the bare ribs. 
This design is abbreviated and 
conventionalized among the Ot- 
tawa and Pottawatomi Indians. 
Among the latter a single line only 
is drawn across the breast, shown 
in Fig. 1046. This corresponds 
also with one of the Indian ges- 
Fic. 1044 ture-signs for the same idea. 
See also the Abnaki sign of starvation, a pot upside Fig. 1045, 
down, in Fig. 456, supra. } 
HORSES. 
Fig. 1047.—They caught many wild 
df horses south of the Platte river, 
American- 
Horse’s Winter 
Count, 1811-12. 
| This figure 
shows a horse in 
the process of 
being caught by 
a lasso. Fic. 1047. 
Fic, 1046. 
