Fig. 71.—Pani.
He says: The lower legs are ornamented with slight projections resembling the marks on the bottom of an ear of corn [husks], and signifies Pani.
A pictograph for Cheyenne is given in Figure 78, page [173], with some remarks.
Figure 72 is the tribal designation for Assiniboine by the Dakotas from winter count of Battiste Good for the year 1709-’10.
Fig. 72.—Assiniboine.
The Dakota pictorial sign for Assiniboine or Hohe, which means the voice, or, as some say, the voice of the musk-ox, is the outline of the vocal organs, as they conceive them, and represents the upper lip and roof of the mouth, the tongue, the lower lip, and chin and neck. The view is lateral, and resembles the sectional aspect of the mouth and tongue.
Figure 73 is the tribal designation of the Gros Ventres, by the same tribe and on the same authority.
Fig. 73.—Gros Ventre.