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mingling of the attributes of the dog and the eagle with special reference 
to swiftness may be suggested. 
Fig. 1250.—Zintkala-wicasa, Bird-Man; also from the Oglala Roster. 
An indication of a bird gens is suggested without information, but per- 
haps it is only a representation of the usual vision required from and 
therefore obtained by boys before reaching manhood. 
Fig. 1251.—Sunkakan-heton, Horse-with-horns; also from the Oglala 
Roster. Perhaps this is not intended as a composite animal, but as a 
horse possessing special and mystic power, as is indicated by the gesture 
sign for wakan, and, as elsewhere in pictographs, by lines extending 
from each side of the head. The same sub-chief appears in Red-Cloud’s 
Census with the name translated into English as Horned-Horse. 
This union of the human figure with that of other animals is of inter- 
est in comparison with the well-known forms of sim- 
ilar character in the art of Egypt and Assyria. 
The feet of the accompanying Fig. 1252, reproduced 
from Bastian (b) on the Northwest Coast of America, 
can not be seen, being hidden in the head of the figure 
beneath. Itis squatting, with its hands on its knees, 
and has a wolf’s head. Arms, legs, mouth, jaws, nos- 
trils, and ear-holes are scarlet; eyebrows, irises, and 
edges of the ears black. 
The drawing Fig. 1253 was made by Mr. J. G. 
Swan while on a visit to the Prince of Wales archi- 
pelago, where he found two carved figures with pan- 
thers’ heads, and claws upon the fore feet, and human 
feet attached to the hind legs. These mythical ani- 
mals were placed upon either side of a corpse which 
was lying in state, awaiting burial. Pee neaebcrr te ere 
The Egyptians represented the evil Typhon by the Haida. 
hippopotamus, the most fierce and savage of their animals; the hawk 
was the symbol for power, and the sernent that for life. Plutarch, in 
Fic. 1253.—Panther-man. Haida. 
Isis and Osiris, 50, says that in Hermopolis these symbols were united, 
a hawk fighting with a serpent being placed on the hippopotamus, thus 
accentuating the idea of the destroyer. The Greeks sometimes substi- 
tuted the eagle for the hawk, and pictured it killing a hare, the most 
prolific of quadrupeds, or fighting a serpent, the same attribute of de- 
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