Pictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper / Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 3-256

by Garrick Mallery

Fig. 89.—Cut throat and scalped. Dakota.

Figure 89 denotes that the wearer has cut the throat of his enemy, and taken his scalp.

Fig. 90.—Cut enemy’s throat. Dakota.

Figure 90 denotes that the wearer has cut the throat of his enemy.

Fig. 91.—Third to strike. Dakota.

Figure 91 denotes that the wearer was the third that touched the body of his enemy after he was killed.