SECTION 2.
PARTICULAR EXPLOITS OR EVENTS.
Fig. 822.—Hunting record. Iroquois.
In the Doc. Hist. N. Y. (b) is an illustration, presented here as Fig. 822, of an Iroquois “returning from hunting, who has slept two nights on the hunting ground and killed three does; for when they are bucks they add their antlers.”
From the same volume, page 9, the following extract is made, describing Fig. 823:
Fig. 823.—Martial exploits. Iroquois.
b. This is the way they mark when they have been to war, and when there is a bar extending from one mark to the other it signifies that, after having been in battle, he did not come back to his village, and that he returned with other parties whom he met or formed.
c. This arrow, which is broken, denotes that they were wounded in this expedition.