The other male figures seem in some instances to have each but a single red band; in others two bands, red and blue, but the drawing is so indistinct as to render this uncertain.
It will be observed, also, that in four instances (Nos. 14, 44, 45, and 72) women are depicted as the surviving heads of families. Their figures do not have the transverse bands on the cheek.
Also that the five chiefs do not have the war club, their rank being shown by pipe and pouch. Those men who are armed with war clubs, which are held vertically before the person, indicate (in accordance with a similar custom among other branches of the Dakota Nation, in which, however, the pipe is held instead of the club) that the man has at some time led war parties on his own account. See pages [118] and [139].
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LVI
AN OGALALA ROSTER—“WALL-DOG” AND BAND
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LVII
AN OGALALA ROSTER—“IRON-CROW” AND BAND
