Figure 176 means a scalp taken. Hidatsa.
Fig. 176.
Figure 177 signifies, in Hidatsa drawing, the man who struck the enemy, and who took his gun.
Fig. 177.
The following specimens from the writer’s card collection are presented as having some individual interest:
Figure 178 was drawn by a Dakota Indian, at Mendota, Minnesota, and represents a man holding a scalp in one hand, while in the other is the gun, the weapon used in the destruction of the enemy. The short vertical lines below the periphery of the scalp indicate hair. The line crossing the leg of the Indian is only an indication of the ground upon which the figure is supposed to stand.
Fig. 178.