No. II. Held a commemoration of the dead. The pipe-stem and the skull indicate this.
White-Cow-Killer calls it “Long-Whistle-sick winter.”
1827-’28.—No. I. The snow was very deep.
No. II. In a fight with the Mandans, Crier was shot in the head with a gun.
White-Cow-Killer calls it “Snow-shoe-making winter.”
1828-’29.—No. I. They provided themselves with a large supply of antelope meat by driving antelope into a corral, in which they were easily killed.
No. II. They drove many antelope into a corral and then killed them.
White-Cow-Killer calls it “Many-Rees-killed winter.”
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XLIII