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Figure 74 is the Eagle clan with a hatchet, and this is often called 

 the Hawk. Figure 73 is the Deer, and figure 77 the Potato, both 

 unarmed. This is the only mention of the latter : 



When they go to war, and wish to inform those of the party who 

 may pass their path, they make a representation of the animal of 

 their tribe, with a hatchet in his dexter paw ; sometimes a sabre 

 or club; and if there be a number of tribes together of the same 

 party, each draws the animal of his tribe, and their number, all on 

 a tree from which they remove the bark. The animal of the tribe 

 which heads the expedition is always the foremost. . . On 

 their return, if they have prisoners or scalps, they paint the animal 

 of the tribe to which they belong, rampant {deb out) with a staff 

 on the shoulder along which are strung the scalps they may have, 

 and in the same number. After the animal are the prisoners they 

 have made, with a chichicois, (or gourd filled with beans which 

 rattle), in the right hand. If they be women, they represent them 

 with a Cadenette or queue and a waistcloth. If there be several 

 tribes in the war party, each paints the animal of his tribe with 

 the scalps and prisoners it has made, as before, but always after 

 that which is head of the party. . . When they have lost any 

 men on the field of battle they paint the men with the legs in the 

 air, and without heads and in the same number as they have lost; 

 and to denote the tribe to which they belonged, they paint the animal 

 of the tribe of the deceased on its back, the paws in the air, and if 

 it be the chief of the party that is dead, the animal is without the 

 head. If there be only wounded, they paint a broken gun which 

 however is connected with the stock, or even an arrow, and to denote 

 where they have been wounded, they paint the animal of the tribe 

 to which the wounded belong with an arrow piercing the part in 

 which the wound is located ; and if it be a gunshot they make the 

 mark of the ball on the body of a different color. If they have sick, 

 and are obliged to carry them, they paint litters (boyards) of ^he 

 same number as the sick, because they carry only one on each litter. 

 O'Callaghan, 1 '.4 



Figure 80 a. This is a person returning from war who has taken 

 a prisoner, killed a man and a woman whose scalps hang from the 

 end of a stick that he carries, b. The prisoner, c. Chichicois (or a 

 gourd) which he holds in the hand. d. These are cords attached 

 to his neck, arms and girdle, e. This is the scalp of a man, what is 

 joined on one side is the scalp-lock. This is the scalp of a woman ; 

 they paint it with the hair thin. O'Callaghan, 1 :J 



Other figures follow from the same account. Figure 78. " Council 

 of war between the tribe of the Bear and that of the Beaver; they 



