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. 92.—Fourth to strike. Dakota.

Figure 92 denotes that the wearer was the fourth that touched the body of his enemy after he was killed.

Fig. 93.—Fifth to strike. Dakota.

Figure 93 denotes that the wearer was the fifth that touched the body of his enemy after he was killed.

Figure 94 denotes the wearer has been wounded in many places by his enemy.

Fig. 94.—Many wounds. Dakota.

The following variations in the scheme were noticed in 1883 among the Mdewakantawan Dakotas near Fort Snelling, Minnesota.