BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXVIII
1857-’58.
1858-’59.
1859-’60.
THE DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS.
1857-’58.—No. I. White-Robe kills a Crow woman. There is but one arrow and one blood spot in the character.
No. II. The Dakotas killed a Crow squaw. The stripes on the blanket are shown horizontally, Brave-Bear’s, 1854-’55, and Swan’s, 1866-’67, being vertical. She is pierced by four arrows, and the peace made with the Crows in 1851-’52 seems to have been short lived.
No. III. A party of Crow Indians, while on a visit to the Dakotas, had one of their number killed by a young Dakota. The figure has blood from the four arrows running down each side of the body.
Mato-Sapa says: A Crow was killed by a Dakota while on a visit to the latter.