e, according to the Arikara, represents the fourth person to strike the enemy.
According to the Hidatsa, the wearer of the mark f had figured in four encounters; in those recorded by the marks in each of the two lateral spaces he was the second to strike the fallen enemy, and the marks in the upper and lower spaces signify that he was the third person upon two other occasions.
Fig. 573.—Record of exploits.
The marks at c, in Fig. 572, may be compared with Fig. 573. The head of the victim in this instance is a white man. Such drawings are not made upon the person or clothing of the hero, but upon buffalo robes or other substances used for record of biographical events.
Fig. 574.—Record of exploits.
The marks at d, in Fig. 572, are drawn on records in the mode shown in Fig. 574.
Illustrations of the actual mode of wearing several of the above devices appear in Fig. 575, drawn by a Hidatsa.