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Fig. 33. A Blackfoot War Record. Beginning at the top, we have 

 Bear Chief (a) on foot surprised by Assiniboine Indians but he escaped ; 

 (b) Double Runner cut loose four horses; (c) Double Runner captures 

 a Gros Ventre boy; (d) Double Runner and a companion encounter 

 and kill two Gros Ventre, he taking a lance from one; (e) even while 

 a boy Double Runner picked up a war-bonnet dropped by a fleeing 

 Gros Ventre which in the system counts as a deed; (f) as a man he has 

 two adventures with Crow Indians, taking a gun from one; (g) he, as 

 leader, met five Flathead in a pit and killed them; (h) a Cree took 

 shelter in some cherry brush in a hole, but Big Nose went in for him; 

 (i) not completely shown, but representing a Cree Indian killed while 



