BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LVIII
AN OGALALA ROSTER—“LITTLE-HAWK” AND BAND
English names of the figures in the Ogalala Roster.
- No. 1. Big-road.
- 2. Bear-looking-behind.
- 3. Brings-back-plenty.
- 4. White buffalo.
- 5. The-real-hawk.
- 6. Shield-boy.
- 7. The-bear-stops.
- 8. Wears-the-feather.
- 9. Dog-eagle.
- 10. Red-horn-bull.
- 11. Low-dog.
- 12. Charging-hawk.
- 13. White-tail.
- 14. Blue-cloud (woman).
- 15. Shield.
- 16. Little-eagle.
- 17. Spotted-skunk.
- 18. White-bear.
- 19. White-hair.
- 20. His-fight.
- 21. Center-feather.
- 22. Kills-Crows (Indians).
- 23. The-bear-spares-him.
- 24. White-plume.
- 25. Fears-nothing.
- 26. Red-crow.
- 27. The-last-bear.
- 28. Bird-man.
- 29. Horse-with-horns.
- 30. Fast-elk.
- 31. Chief-boy.
- 32. Spotted-elk.
- 33. Carries-the-badger.
- 34. Red-earth-woman.
- 35. Eagle-clothing.
- 36. Has-a-war-club.
- 37. Little-buffalo.
- 38. Has-a-point (weapon.)
- 39. Returning-scout.
- 40. Little-killer.
- 41. Whistler.
- 42. Tongue.
- 43. Black-elk.
- 44. Lone-woman.
- 45. Deaf-woman.
- 46. Long-dog. Erroneously printed Wall dog on Plate LVI.
- 47. Iron-hawk.
- 48. Pretty-weasel.
- 49. Short-buffalo.
- 50. Bull-with-bad-heart.
- 51. Four-crows.
- 52. Tall-white-man.
- 53. Eagle-hawk.
- 54. Lone-man.
- 55. Causes-trouble-ahead.
- 56. Makes-dirt (“foul”).
- 57. Black-road.
- 58. Shot-close.
- 59. Iron-crow.
- 60. Running-horse.
- 61. Owns-an-animal-with-horns.
- 62. Blue-cloud-man.
- 63. Fingers.
- 64. Sacred-teeth.
- 65. Searching-cloud.
- 66. Female-elk-boy.
- 67. Little-owl.
- 68. Pretty-horse.
- 69. Running-eagle.
- 70. Makes-enemy.
- 71. Prairie-chicken.
- 72. Red-flute-woman.
- 73. Little-hawk.
- 74. Standing-buffalo.
- 75. Standing-bear.
- 76. Iron-white-man.
- 77. Bear-whirlwind.
- 78. Sacred-crow.
- 79. Blue-hawk.
- 80. Hard-to-kill.
- 81. Iron-boy.
- 82. Painted-rock.
- 83. Yellow-wolf.
- 84. Made-an-enemy.
The information yet obtained from the author of the pictograph concerning its details is meager, and as it will probably be procured no unimportant conjectures are now hazarded. It is presented for the ideography shown, which may in most cases be understood from the translation of the several names into English as given in the preceding list. A few remarks of explanation, occurring to the writer, may be added:
No. 34, on plate LIV, with the translation Red-earth-woman, appears from the scalp-lock and the warrior’s necklace to be a man, and Red-earth-woman to be his name.
No. 62 on Plate LVII, probably refers to an Ogalala who was called Arapaho, the interpretation, as well as the blue cloud, being in the Dakota language “Blue cloud,” a term by which the Arapaho Indians are known to the Dakotas, as several times mentioned in this paper. In No. 65, Plate LVII, the cloud is drawn in blue, the searching being derived from the expression of that idea in gesture by passing the extended index of one hand (or both) forward from the eye, then from right to left, as if indicating various uncertain localities before the person, i. e., searching for something. The lines from the eyes are in imitation of this gesture.
In No. 77, Plate LVIII, is a reproduction of the character given in Red-Cloud’s Census, No. 133. See Plate LXVII. The figure appears, according to the explanation given by several Ogalala Dakota Indians, to signify the course of a whirlwind, with the transverse lines in imitation of the circular movement of the air, dirt, leaves, etc., observed during such aërial disturbances.