BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. X
1803-’04.
1804-’05.
1805-’06.
THE DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS.
1803-’04.—No. I. A Blackfeet steals many curly horses from the Assinaboines.
No. II. They stole some “curly horses” from the Crows. Some of these horses are still seen on the plains, the hair growing in closely-curling tufts, resembling in texture the negro’s woolly pile. The device is a horse with black marks for the tufts. The Crows are known to have been early in the possession of horses.
No. III. Uncpapa Dakotas stole five woolly horses from the Ree Indians.
White-Cow-Killer calls it “Plenty-woolly-horses winter.”
Mato Sapa says: Uncpapa stole from the Rees five horses having curly hair.