MALLERY. | IMITATED PICTOGRAPHS. 765 
dirt lodge. The irregular markings apparently upon the side and to the left of the 
lodge represent a fence made of sticks and brush set in the ground. The same style 
of fence may be seen now in any Sioux village. 
The lines of human figures standing hand-in-hand indicate that a dance was being 
conducted in the lodge. The three prostrate forms at right and left sides of the lodge 
represent two men and a woman who, being overcome by the excitement and fatigue 
of the dance, had been carried out in the airto recover. The difference in the shape 
of the prostrate forms indicates the different sexes. 
The curling figures or rings above the lodge represent smoke, and indicate that 
the dance was held in winter, when fire was used. 
An amusing example of forced interpretation of a genuine petroglyph 
is given by Lieut. J. W. Gunnison (a), and is 
presented in the present work in connection with 
Fig. 81, supra. 
Fig. 1288 is a copy of a drawing taken from 
an Ojibwa pipestem, obtained by Dr. Hoffman 
from an officer of the United States Army, who 
had procured it from an Indian in St. Paul, 
Minnesota. On more minute examination, it ap- 
peared that the pipestem had been purchased at 
a shop in St. Paul, which had furnished a large 
number of similar objects—so large as to awaken 
suspicion that they were in the course of daily 
manufacture. The figures and characters on 
the pipestem were drawn in colors. In the 
present figure, which is without colors, the hori- 
zontal lines represent blue and the vertical red, 
according to the heraldic scheme. The outlines : 
were drawn in a dark neutral tint, in some lines 
approaching black; the triangular characters, aiNe 
representing lodges, being also in a neutral tint, 
or an ashen hue, and approaching’ black in 
severalinstances. The explanation of the figures, 
made before there was any suspicion of their 
authenticity, is as follows: 
The first figure is that of a bear, representing 
the person to whom the record pertains. The 
heart above the line, according to an expression 
in gesture language, would signify a brave heart, 
increased numbers indicating much or many, so 
that the three hearts mean a large brave heart. 
The second figure, a circle inclosing a triradi- 
ate character, refers to the personal totem. The 
character in the middle somewhat resembles 
the pictograph sometimes representing stars, 
though in the latter the lines center upon the "°° fuittedpicto 
disks and not at a common point. 
