BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LXXVIII
RED-CLOUD’S CENSUS.—GUN’S BAND.
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LXXIX
RED-CLOUD’S CENSUS.—SECOND BLACK-DEER’S BAND.
The first sheet of the original series contains in the present series of plates Nos. 1-130; the second sheet, Nos. 131-174; third sheet, Nos. 175-210; fourth sheet, Nos. 211-235; fifth sheet, Nos. 236-253; sixth sheet, Nos. 254-277; seventh sheet, Nos. 278-289. This arrangement seems to imply seven bands or, perhaps, gentes.
Dr. V. T. McGillycuddy, Indian agent at Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota, in correspondence, gives the impression that the several pictographs, representing names, were attached as signatures by the several individuals to a subscription list for Dr. T. A. Bland, before mentioned, the editor of The Council Fire, in support of that publication, and with an agreement that each should give twenty-five cents. The subscribers were, in fact, the adherents of Red-Cloud. The motive for the collection of pictured names is of little consequence, its interest, as that of the foregoing Ogalala Roster, being in the mode of their portrayal, together with the assurance that they were the spontaneous and genuine work of the Indians concerned.
Many suggestions regarding the origin of heraldry and that of proper names can be obtained from this and the preceding series of plates.
The translation of the names corresponding with the figures is as follows: