Picture-Writing of the American Indians / Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822

by Garrick Mallery

Fig. 562.—Cut enemy’s throat. Dakota.

Fig. 562 denotes that the wearer has cut the throat of his enemy.

Fig. 563.—Third to strike. Dakota.

Fig. 563 denotes that the wearer was the third that touched the body of his enemy after he was killed.

Fig. 564.—Fourth to strike. Dakota.

Fig. 564 denotes that the wearer was the fourth that touched the body of his enemy after he was killed.