INDIAN WRITING.
[Illustration: No. I and 3, prisoners captured by No. 2. (No hands on the prisoners.) No. 1, female prisoner. No. 3, male.]
[Illustration: Nos. 4 and 5, female and male killed; 6 and 7, boy and girl killed.]
[Illustration: No. 8, that he has killed his enemy; 9, that he has cut the throat of his enemy, and taken the scalp; 10, that he was the third that touched the body of his enemy after he was killed; 11, the fourth that touched it; 12, the fifth that touched it.]
[Illustration: No. 13, been wounded in many places by this enemy; 15, that he has cut the throat of the enemy.]
The above represents the feathers from the war eagle. They are worn in the hair of the warriors, as honors.
The above represents the only way that the Sioux have of writing an account of an engagement that has taken place.