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are brothers. . . L. Is a belt which he holds in his paws to 

 avenge the death of some one and he is conferring about it with 

 his brother, the Beaver." Figure 79. " Council for affairs of state." 

 The Bear and Turtle alone appear here, but the others may be added, 

 each on its own side of the council fire. Figure 82. " Canoe going 

 to war. Q. Paddles. They know hereby how many men there are 

 in the canoe, because they place as many paddles as there are men. 

 Over these is painted the animal of the tribe to which they belong." 

 Figure 61. " This is a man returning from hunting who has slept 

 two nights on the hunting ground and killed three does; for when 

 they are bucks, they add their antlers. What is on his back, is his 

 bundle." Figure 81 belongs to the same, described as follows: 

 " T. Deer's head. This is the way they paint them. V. This is the 

 manner they mark the time they have been hunting. Each mark 

 or rather each bar is a day." Figure 62. " Fashion of painting the 

 dead; the first two are men and the third is a woman who is dis- 

 tinguished only by the waist cloth that she has." Figure- 83 is 

 collectively " The Portrait of a Savage on a board in their cabin 

 on which they ordinarily paint, how often he has been to war ; how 

 many men he has taken and killed." The description of the several 

 parts follows : " a. These are punctures on his body. b. This is the 

 way they mark when they have been to war, and when there is a 

 bar extending from one mark to the other, it signifies that after 

 having been in battle, he did not come back to his village and that 

 he returned with other parties whom he met or formed, c. This 

 arrow, which is broken, denotes that they were wounded in this 

 expedition, d. Thus they denote that the belts which they gave to 

 raise a war party and to avenge the death of some one, belong to 

 them or to some of the same tribe, e. He has gone back to fight 

 without having entered his village. /. A man whom he killed on 

 the field of battle who had a bow and arrows, g. These are two 

 men whom he took prisoners, one of whom had a hatchet, and the 

 other a gun in his hand. gg. This is a woman who is designated 

 only by a species of waistcloth. h. This is the way they distinguish 

 her from the men. Such is the mode in which they draw their 

 portraits." O'Callaghan, 1 :o, 



