18 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



rig. 36, 1835. — " Lame Deer" shot a Crow Indian with an arrow, drew 

 it out, and shot him again with the same arrow. The hand is drawing 

 the arrow from the first wound. This is another instance of the prin- 

 ciple on which events were selected. Many fights occurred of greater 

 moment, but with no incident jDrecisely like this. 



Fig. 37, 1836.—" Band's Father", chief of the Two Kettles, died. So 

 declare the notes of Basil Clement's interpretation ; but it is by no 

 means as satisfactory as the ancient efforts of Daniel in that direction, 

 and no one else knew anything on the subject. The symbol is the same 

 as Fig. 17, denoting plenty of buffalo belly ; and while the original may 

 have some mark or color contra-distinguishing the two, omitted in the 

 copy, the question remains what the buffalo belly had to do with the de- 

 mise of the lamented chieftain, unless he suffered from a fatal indigestion 

 after eating too much of that delicacy. The writer is inclined to adopt 

 Mr. Tennyson's belief that "some one had blundered"; there being an 

 obvious error in the symbol, or the interpretation, or both. 



Fig. 38, 1837. — Commemorates a remarkably successful hunt, in which 

 it is said one hundred elk were killed. The drawing of the elk is quite 

 good enough to distinguish it from the other quadruj)eds in the chart. 



Fig. 39, 1838. — A dirt lodge was built for "Iron Horn-'. The other 

 dirt lodge (Fig. 16) has a mark of ownership which this has not. Per- 

 haps it was not so easy to draw an iron horn as a crow feather, and the 

 distinction was accomplished by omission. A chief of the Minneconjous 

 is mentioned in General Harney's report in 1856, under the name of The- 

 One-Iron-Horn, which is i^robably but another translation of the name 

 of this owner of " a lodge in some vast wilderness". 



Fig. 40, 1839. — The Dakotas killed an entire village of Snake Indians. 

 The character is the ordinary tepee pierced by arrows. The Snakes, or 

 Shoshones, were a numerous and wide-spread people, divided into 

 Shoshones i3roper and Utahs. The former inhabit Southeastern Oregon, 

 Idaho, Western Montana, and the northern portions of Utah and 

 Nevada ; the latter occupy nearly the whole of Utah and Nevada, ex- 

 tending into Arizona and California. 



Fig. 41, 1840. — The Dakotas made peace with the Cheyennes, a well- 

 known tribe belonging to the Algonquin family, with which at the 

 present time the leaders of the insurgent Sioux are still on the best 

 terms. The symbol of peace is the common one of the approaching 

 palms of two ijersons. 



Fig. 42, 1841. — " Feather-inthe-Ear " stole thirty spotted ponies. The 

 spots are shown red, distinguishing them from those of the curly horse 

 in Fig. 4. " Feather-in-the-Ear" was evidently a " ticklish" character, 

 the Autolycus of his tribe. 



Fig. 43, 1842. — "One Feather" raised a large war-party against the 

 Crows. This chief is designated by his long solitary red eagle feather, 



nd holds a pipe with black stem and red bowl, alluding to the usual 

 ceremonies before starting on the war-path. The-Eed- War-Eagle- 

 Feather was at this time a chief of the Sans Arcs. 



