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

Figure 173 was drawn for dead man by the Arikara. Cf. “nothing there,” page [168].

Fig. 173.

Figure 174. In records of personal events the two lines above the head of the fallen enemy denote among the Hidatsa that the person to whom the exploit refers was the second to strike the body.

Fig. 174.

Figure 175 shows the third person to strike the enemy, as drawn by the Hidatsa.

Fig. 175.