658 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Fig. 1055.—Dog, an Oglala, stole seventy horses from the Crows. 
American-Horse’s Winter Count, 182223. Each of the seven tracks 
stands for ten horses. A lariat, which serves the purpose among others 
of a long whip, and is usually allowed to trail on the ground, is shown 
in the man’s hand. : 
Fig. 1056.—Sitting-Bear, American-Horse’s father, and others, stole 
two hundred horses from the Flat Heads. American-Horse’s Winter 
Count, 1840-41. A trailing lariat is in the man’s hand. 
Fig. 1057.—Brings-lots-of-horses. Red-Cloud’s Census. This is ¢ 
further step in conventionalizing. The lariat a 
is but slightly indicated as connected with AXAAnA 
the horse track on the lower left-hand cor- MAR a 
ner. £ ; ; me ~ 
Fig. 1058.—The Utes stole all of the Brule AKVA AR 
horses. Cloud-Shield’s Winter Count, 1874— 
Mie 157-975, The mere indication of a number of 
horse tracks without any qualifying or determinative object means 
that the horses are run off or stolen. This becomes the most conven- 
tionalized form of the group. 
Fig. 1059.—Steals-Horses. Red-Cloud’s Census. In this figure the 
horse tracks themselves are more rude and conventionalized. 
The Prince of Wied mentions, op. cit., p. 104, that 
in the Sae and Fox tribes the rattle of a rattlesnake \ 
attached to the end of the feather worn 
Ce on the head signifies a good horse stealer. 
> =e The stealthy approach of the serpent, 
(eG accompanied with latent power, is here 
clearly indicated. 
F1G. 1059. Fig. 1060,—Making-the- Hole stole many 
horses from a Crow tipi. Such is the translation in 
Cloud-Shield’s Winter Count, 1849-50. e 
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Through the orifice thus made heobtains “52,7? i) 
vie a, 
aecess to the horse. But it is more prob- 
‘IG. 1060. 
able that the single tipi represents a vil- 
“is lage into which the horse-thief 
effected an entrance and ran off 
the horses belonging to it. 
Fig. 1061, 
KILL AND DEATH. 
Fig. 1061.— Male-Crow, an Oglala, was 
killed by the Shoshoni. American-Horse’s 
Winter Count, 184445. The bow in contact 
with the head of the victim is frequently the 
conventional sign for “killed by an arrow.” 
This is not drawn in the Winter Counts on the 
Fig. 1062. 
